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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux_gaming
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[–] twotonebax 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Made the switch this weekend :) From Win 11 to Mint 22. Haven't run into any real issues really. I have the occasional screen tear on some videos in firefox though. Haven't searched around enough yet to figure that out, but otherwise all good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like you need to turn on hardware acceleration.

[–] twotonebax 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that a per-app thing that can be done in Mint? Pretty much only get tearing in firefox when playing video, and I tried the 'layers.acceleration.force-enabled true' setting in about:config for firefox, but that didn't really make a difference.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] twotonebax 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow I feel stupid lol. That fixed it. Thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Don't feel stupid you're new to Linux. Welcome to freedom 😁🐧

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to Linux. I run mint and had screen tearing issues as well. Turns out mint detected my monitor correctly, but it had the wrong refresh rate. Once I set that to the correct refresh rate, my screen tearing was fixed. So I suggest checking that.

[–] twotonebax 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking its either nvidia on linux being nvidia on linux, or it not liking mixed resolutions and refresh rates. But really the only noticeable tearing I get is in firefox when playing video like youtube or something.

[–] upandatom 1 points 3 months ago

I also had screen tearing issues immediately on startup into the mint installer. Had to run the installer in safe mode to get mint going. Once mint was fully installed and rebooted to my desktop for the first time, had the same screen issues as I did with the installer not in safe mode. So mint only worked during install and only in safe mode.

Maybe our issues are similar (I'm Nvidia 1080 card), but I was never able to fix mine.