I use Linux Mint, GT 710, and an i5, and my performance was the basically the same as when I was on WIndows which was good for the games I play, but a few days ago, I started getting really inconsistent performance across different games. I mostly play old, less intensive games and that's all I've played since I moved to Linux, and I was always running games at 60+ fps, but a few days ago, things started getting weird and it's kinda all over the place. Team Fortress 2 now keeps going between 15 - 50fps w...

I have been running Linux Mint on my desktop for years and could not be happier, but I need to install Linux on my laptop now that Windows 10 is EOL. I looked at at few Arch based distros, Manjaro seemed ok, but I really liked the test drive of Nobara. This laptop is mostly steam and gaming, maybe some blender/krita art work thrown in there. I was just wondering if there are any big nasty surprises I might run into later or if anyone had any experience with it?...

I'm struggling with a thing where all my previously-playable games slowed to a crawl overnight. I've been looking through discussion after discussion but none of the other fixes seem to do the trick. Any ideas? Things I've tried: I've tried both NVIDIA driver 570 and 580, purging between swaps. I tried downgrading further but that's a huge ordeal for my setup. Per this conversation , I've t...

I was away from my computer for almost a year, and I boot it up today and find out that most of my steam library doesn't work anymore. It's just steam. Everything else (non-steam games, emulators, etc.) works perfectly. Almost every game fails to launch. Some show a black screen quickly before crashing, others do nothing. The only game that worked was Fallout 4. The only game that gave an error message was Halo MCC "DX11 feature level 10.0 is required to run the engine". I read from a search that meant m...

for me it was kind of a mix, loved the freedom and how easy linux is, proton is way better than i expected even on my old hardware, but i still ran into some random driver stuff and had to find workarounds to replace the windows trauma... did you go full linux or kept dual booting?...