Linux mint cinnamon will be the easiest possible change to make. It’s the most bland, least interesting choice out of them, and I love it for that. You can always switch later if you don’t like it or want something more adventurous.
I never had screen tearing with NVIDIA under Mint, but for AMD I found that something needs to be added to the Xorg configuration to turn screen tearing off.
I suspect the default is so as not to limit the graphics in any way, but I can’t imagine the majority of users want it that way around, so I’m a little confused by that choice.
This is the exact same reason I ultimately gave up on Linux Mint and switched to Fedora. I could not get rid of tearing and I fragged X11 (and made my OS un-bootable) on multiple occasions trying to fix it using recommended tweaks to config files. It was looking like a Wayland based solution was what I needed so I chose to move on.
GNOME haters can just put away their knives since I am no fan boy; I just wanted to completely escape anything resembling a MicroSlop experience and Workstation gave me a clean DE, more current package releases, HDR, Variable refresh rate , and solid gaming performance with a minimal amount of fuss. CachyOS was next on my list if Fedora didn’t work and I am still considering trying it out someday. That said, there is no question that making the switch to Linux as a new user can be daunting and I would still suggest Mint for older hardware with less of a gaming focus.
And that’s exactly why I think that recommending Mint to gamers is actually evil.
If you want to use any of those features exclusive to Wayland there’s no option to do that on Mint. Your only choice is to completely restart and use another distro, which I don’t think that leaves a good impression for anyone who is just starting out with Linux.
It was at least on the version I tried and it was super annoying trying to figure out why it wouldn’t detect my GPU which was an RX 9060XT and not supported by the default Linux Kernel. Once I upgraded the Kernel, that got my AMDGPU stuff working but I could not overcome other graphics issues like persistent tearing (even with V-sync).
GNOME is fucking great. Anyone can complain about it in a valid way, but to me it’s light-years above KDE and it’s kinda between KDE and GNOME if you want to maximize compatibility with a huge number of apps.
Too right. I got pushed out of the Windows ecosystem by the forced obsolescence of Win10 and after dabbling with an older version of Ubuntu in the past and iOS, Cinnamon felt like I was hanging on to what I was trying to leave. GNOME just worked for me functionally and aesthetically. I use Win11 at work and hate every minute of it.
Linux mint cinnamon will be the easiest possible change to make. It’s the most bland, least interesting choice out of them, and I love it for that. You can always switch later if you don’t like it or want something more adventurous.
Screen tearing goes brrrr
I never had screen tearing with NVIDIA under Mint, but for AMD I found that something needs to be added to the Xorg configuration to turn screen tearing off.
I suspect the default is so as not to limit the graphics in any way, but I can’t imagine the majority of users want it that way around, so I’m a little confused by that choice.
This website has instructions on how to fix it for Ubuntu, but I can confirm it works in LMDE too, so I assume it works across the Debian family if not elsewhere: https://davejansen.com/quick-how-to-fix-screen-tearing-in-ubuntu-with-amd-gpus/
This is the exact same reason I ultimately gave up on Linux Mint and switched to Fedora. I could not get rid of tearing and I fragged X11 (and made my OS un-bootable) on multiple occasions trying to fix it using recommended tweaks to config files. It was looking like a Wayland based solution was what I needed so I chose to move on.
GNOME haters can just put away their knives since I am no fan boy; I just wanted to completely escape anything resembling a MicroSlop experience and Workstation gave me a clean DE, more current package releases, HDR, Variable refresh rate , and solid gaming performance with a minimal amount of fuss. CachyOS was next on my list if Fedora didn’t work and I am still considering trying it out someday. That said, there is no question that making the switch to Linux as a new user can be daunting and I would still suggest Mint for older hardware with less of a gaming focus.
And that’s exactly why I think that recommending Mint to gamers is actually evil.
If you want to use any of those features exclusive to Wayland there’s no option to do that on Mint. Your only choice is to completely restart and use another distro, which I don’t think that leaves a good impression for anyone who is just starting out with Linux.
Woah, mint is still on x11? Yikes, I didn’t realize that, if that’s true.
It was at least on the version I tried and it was super annoying trying to figure out why it wouldn’t detect my GPU which was an RX 9060XT and not supported by the default Linux Kernel. Once I upgraded the Kernel, that got my AMDGPU stuff working but I could not overcome other graphics issues like persistent tearing (even with V-sync).
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Unless you prefer modernity
It’d be really funny if XFCE beat Cinnamon to official Wayland support.
GNOME is fucking great. Anyone can complain about it in a valid way, but to me it’s light-years above KDE and it’s kinda between KDE and GNOME if you want to maximize compatibility with a huge number of apps.
I had that issue for a while too. It’s gone now, and I have no idea what change did it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I couldn’t stand Mint Cinnamon, it’s like Linux with all the worst parts of Windows =P
Too right. I got pushed out of the Windows ecosystem by the forced obsolescence of Win10 and after dabbling with an older version of Ubuntu in the past and iOS, Cinnamon felt like I was hanging on to what I was trying to leave. GNOME just worked for me functionally and aesthetically. I use Win11 at work and hate every minute of it.