I would never recommend Mint to a new user, especially one with newish gaming hardware. While anecdotal, I’ve had serious hardware support issues every time I’ve tried it and I hate the Cinnamon desktop.
Peripheral support is a well known gap on Linux. There is no guarantee you will get things like RGB working, or niche keyboard or mouse macros. It takes a bit of research and tenacity to find your options. Sim enthusiasts have it worse, since they often need proprietary gear that depends on proprietary software.
If you just play PC games are aren’t picky about niche hardware, I will always recommend Bazzite first. If you want more control, then switch to Fedora KDE. If neither of those are good enough for you, nothing will be.
I put bazzite on the living room PC this week, replacing windows 10. Everything works but I haven’t checked any really intensive 3d stuff on my rtx card yet.
Only known issue is that VLC doesn’t seem to have sound… But the pre-installed player works anyway.
Bluetooth game controllers worked out the box and I prefer KDE connect to unified remote which I was using with windows, to control mouse and keyboard from my phone.
Forgive my ignorance… I installed it using the bazzaar which afaik IS flatpak, is there more nuance to it? Fwiw I’m taking sound via HDMI from from my graphics card to an AV receiver and out of stereo speakers. I’ll have a search around vlc, just installed it because it’s what I’m used to
I would never recommend Mint to a new user, especially one with newish gaming hardware. While anecdotal, I’ve had serious hardware support issues every time I’ve tried it and I hate the Cinnamon desktop.
Peripheral support is a well known gap on Linux. There is no guarantee you will get things like RGB working, or niche keyboard or mouse macros. It takes a bit of research and tenacity to find your options. Sim enthusiasts have it worse, since they often need proprietary gear that depends on proprietary software.
If you just play PC games are aren’t picky about niche hardware, I will always recommend Bazzite first. If you want more control, then switch to Fedora KDE. If neither of those are good enough for you, nothing will be.
I put bazzite on the living room PC this week, replacing windows 10. Everything works but I haven’t checked any really intensive 3d stuff on my rtx card yet.
Only known issue is that VLC doesn’t seem to have sound… But the pre-installed player works anyway.
Bluetooth game controllers worked out the box and I prefer KDE connect to unified remote which I was using with windows, to control mouse and keyboard from my phone.
So far so good with bazzite!
Maybe try the flatpak version of VLC
Forgive my ignorance… I installed it using the bazzaar which afaik IS flatpak, is there more nuance to it? Fwiw I’m taking sound via HDMI from from my graphics card to an AV receiver and out of stereo speakers. I’ll have a search around vlc, just installed it because it’s what I’m used to
No worries, I’m just as ignorant as you are.
Just in case anyone else has the same issue, I fixed this by changing the output module in VLC to ALSA audio output and restarting, that sorted it.