Last time I tried to play Stray on Linux Mint on my laptop while connected to 4k TV, I ran into severe degradation unrelated to thermal throttling. I had to tweak the resolution down a lot and even the graphics. I recently went back to using Windows on the laptop because of an unrelated network speed unreliability problem on Mint, and when I tried Stray, there were no issues. Before this, I had even installed Stray on my gaming PC to stream from the laptop because of how laggy the performance was.
Specs
RTX 3080-Ti Laptop AMD Ryzen 9 6900 HX Linux Mint latest 16GB RAM
EDIT:
Okay so I suspected it was thermal throttling, even though I have a cooling fan. Turns out not using a cooling fan is better than using a cooling fan at the lowest setting. At the highest setting, the cooling fan is too loud but the game performs still slightly worse than on Windows.
It’s a mint problem. They still use really old packages and X11 for their display server.
If you tried again with a more modern OS and one specifically using Wayland, you may get better results.
Bazzite and CachyOS are built with gaming in mind.
Pikaos also great if you wanna stick with a Debian base but have up to date packages kernel and video drivers
Linux Mint being the top distro recommended by searching the internet really does not help the broader “year of the Linux desktop” goal. Like I think we are there for the right distro if you skip disk encryption and opt for home drive encryption, but that itself is not easy info to come by.
For example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1e2qo9v/im_thinking_of_switching_to_linux_what_distro/
I found the switch quite easy from Windows to Mint. Think the reason it is recommended so much, as it makes the first step into Linux easier. But as you said it has it limitations in gaming.
I ended up with two distros, Bazzite for gaming and still using Mint for office staff.
As I have to say the performance and speed of Mint distro is much better, for just doing my day to day things.
So switch distros? Not everything will be perfect which means you have to figure what’s best for your situation.
Huh? I was implying Mint shouldn’t be so highly recommend. But okay start being toxic. Why switch distros when I can just use Windows and delete Mint 😂.
I mean you took a reasonable suggestion as toxicity, ok 🤷. Your suggestion to switch to Windows instead is also valid. To use Linux means you’re willing to put up with relatively new issues. One issue being the choice of your “final” distro. But if that’s too much then yeah, there’s no shame with switching back to Windows.
What a broken mindset when Mint is literally glazed as being usable.
“relatively new issues.” LOLOL. Yeah please keep coming up with excuses for how Mint wasn’t responsible for bricking the NTFS file system (last updated 2001) of my hard drive (2022) after just a few months of using the drive with Mint when it was working fine with Windows for almost 4 years.
Yeah imagine lacking the self-awareness that you think normal people talk like this in real life. If you think being passive aggressive by default is normal, then you’re either anti-social or mentally deficient.
Of course it’s too much when Mint not only can’t be used for couch gaming but it also can’t be used for HTPC since it bricks an NTFS hard drive. Oh wait, don’t tell me you’re now going to victim blame and say how I should’ve reformatted the drive when I decided to daily drive Mint as an HTPC.
I already daily drive Fedora KDE on my PC; I don’t need someone being condensing and passive-agressive just because I dared insult Mint for being worse than Windows 11.
Damn, one little suggestion set you off this much huh… Enjoy Fedora and have a good day.