i tried learning spanish with it, now i know how to order a hamburger with cheese but it won’t teach me much else… just the same fucking sentence over and over again. every now and then it drops in a new word and then we’re back to the hamburger thing.

even when your pc is on, the drives should power off when they haven’t been utilized for a while. i used to keep my machines running 24/7, and i mean not even letting them sleep, and i have never had a drive fail. since electricity prices started going up i let them autosuspend to save money. if you have mechanical hard drives, make sure they are mounted in a proper orientation. with SSDs, there are lots of manufacturers out there, so choose a reputable one.

i have tried new and old kernels, liquorix and xanmod too, no help. i am using nvidia gpu though, this has been my fear… maybe I’ll go back to mint 21.3 as it didn’t suffer from this.

i use cinnamon. and every suspend option works when done manually in terminal or gui.

i have absolutely nothing running and this still happens. even tried uninstalling every program one by one and seeing if it still happens. it still happens.

3060ti here and mint cinnamon is perfect. no other distro works properly though.

I’m fine with graphics from 20 years ago, i just need it to run 4k 120fps with no stutters. GTA SA (the original) is totally fine for me visually with a few mods to allow high res, widescreen and high fps fix.

recent games are graphically too intensive for my gpu even on lowest settings, and i paid fucking 800€ for it a few years ago!

ikr, i try to stay away from the stock one too

mint cinnamon. your experience sounds a lot like mine whenever i try any other distro. mint is the best.

afterburner. i’m unable to oc my nvidia gpu :(

oh no! in a few years we will run out of nm’s!

have a look at this, there’s a fix for the shader issue. https://wiki.hoggitworld.com/view/DCS_on_linux

which game is that? have you tried proton GE? if it’s anticheat stuff, your best choice is to dual boot unfortunately. if it isn’t resource intensive, i guess you could try GPU passthrough in a VM and see if it works. you need two GPUs for that tho…

well, i stand corrected. i only have win10 on my laptop that i use for school and haven’t seen any popups. may be because updater is broken beyond repair…

i think the ads are a US thing only

can alsamixer achieve this? i managed to adjust my soundcards gain with it

<1080p screens are still a thing in new laptops. took a quick look at my local electronics store and found some with 1600x900. but most are indeed at least fhd.

well, cinnamon works great on mint and fedora, and i have had less (none) gpu related issues on mint than i did even on windows. kde wouldn’t play nice with my old pc components either and gpu is the only thing that i kept, so i would suspect it’s some weirdness between my gpu and kde.

and too bad i can’t go with amd because i need hdmi 2.1

well yeah i tried ubuntu a couple years back and i remember having some issues with it too.

weird thing is that mint has never had any issues even though it’s based on ubuntu. not even nvidia related issues.

i know i’ll get downvoted but this was my experience last time i tried kde a few weeks ago (kubuntu and fedora kde):

• cool animations but stuttery as hell

• browser randomly consuming 10% of cpu, making everything else slow as if it was using 100% (tested: firefox, librewolf, floorp, brave)

• programs refusing to install

• programs refusing to open

• editing the taskbar often resulted in all the items going on top of each other, i couldn’t move them until i rebooted. couldn’t find an option to reset the whole thing

• i put cpu and gpu temps in the system monitor and it always borked after it had been closed a few minutes

• kded5 or something like that constantly popped up wanting to create a new wallet. couldn’t figure out how to disable. guides pointed to a configuration file that didn’t exist on my system

idk if it’s an nvidia thing but none of these happen on other DEs