Sure, I’d consider that the main option (and it had already been proposed by multiple people here). But, it also seems like that would come with quite a bit of additional hassle, as discussed below. I’ve personally had some quite annoying issues with incompatible DKMS modules… So, instead of using the unsupported AUR option, it might also be worth considering switching to a very similar distro that actually still supports this hardware configuration.
One option that you could also consider is switching to CachyOS. It seems that they’re handling support for these legacy GPUs in a much nicer way: https://discuss.cachyos.org/t/announcement-maintenance-notice-nvidia-driver-restructuring-580xx-590xx/20010
I have 3080 and I’ve seen significant performance issues too (e.g. in Cyberpunk 2077, KCD2). I think it depends a lot on the games you play. Apparently DX12 (via vkd3d) doesn’t perform well on Nvidia cards.
My next GPU will probably not be an Nvidia card.
Barrier - Keyboard and mouse sharing via network - I use this extensively and the break in compatibility is destructive for me.
Barrier has been unmaintained for a while now. The two active forks are deskflow (upstream) and input-leap. Deskflow has limited supported for Wayland. It seems that they’re working on resolving the remaining issues: https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/discussions/7499
15 years is too long, it doesn’t match the state of the industry or technological progress.
How is this too long? I would consider it a reasonable amount of time to receive security updates on a computer.
I have a notebook that I bought in 2012. It can run Ubuntu LTS 24.04, which is supported until 2034, without issue. There is no indication that the next release will stop supporting this hardware. I don’t see why Microsoft couldn’t provide this.
Yes, that makes sense. Unfortunately, as far as I know, Mint doesn’t provide a list of obsolete or deprecated packages. Even the upstream Ubuntu release notes (https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-24-04-lts-noble-numbat-release-notes/39890 for 24.04 / LM 22) don’t list removed packages.
What you can do after the upgrade is query for obsolete packages on your system using apt list ?obsolete. It’s generally recommended to remove those.
It seems that xplayer was abandoned after the last release in 2022. It is not present in the LM 22 repos. Maybe you still have a version installed from LM21?
I would expect the change in the default app to be mentioned in the release notes, but I can’t find anything on the removal of the package in LM22: https://linuxmint.com/rel_wilma.php
Ok, so you didn’t even get to the bootloader (Step 4 here: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/boot.html). Indeed it seems most likely that your USB drive was not created correctly. I would go with the steps I pointed out above to debug the issue.
and while it was recognized in BIOS, it wouldn’t boot from it.
What exactly happened here? This approach should usually have worked.
The first thing I would suggest to do is verify the checksum of the ISO that you downloaded. I think you can use 7zip to calculate the SHA256 checksum on Windows.
Instead of trying to manually create a bootable USB disk, I would suggest to try a different tool, e.g. Fedora Image Writer.
If possible, you could also try a different USB stick and a different computer to troubleshoot the issue.
Interesting, I didn’t know that but it seems like Wayland is indeed CSD by default. However, all relevant compositors except for Mutter support xdg-decoration (https://wayland.app/protocols/xdg-decoration-unstable-v1). So in practice it’s still only a Gnome issue.
No, that’s Gnome, not Wayland. KDE still prefers SSD on Wayland.
I feel it has gotten much better in recent years. The first time I tried KDE 5 it looked weird to me. But now I acutally quite like KDE 6. Or maybe I’ve just learned to tolerate it…
What kind of issues did/do you encounter?
The VS Code/Codium essentially provide a separate development environment within the flatpak container. All the tools there, and the shell are separate from your actual system. There are some ways to work around this (https://github.com/flathub/com.vscodium.codium/blob/master/README.md). I gave up on the Flatpak and installed a native package. Containers are nice, but they have their limitations.
Sure, Bazzite has some nice features. But, I would argue that apart from the Nvidia images (there is no AMD image) those are all minor things. And for Nvidia cards, the Mint Driver Manager is pretty good. I don’t think any of those differences play a role here.
In general, I think it’s really unhelpful to present “switch to my favorite distro” as the first step in troubleshooting an issue.
Try CachyOS or Bazzite!
Bazzite, sure, but it’s not gonna magically solve these kind of issues.
However, if one is struggling as a beginner with Linux, I would strongly advise against switching to an Arch-based distro (CachyOS). Arch is great, but this is not its target audience.
I strongly disagree with u/brucethemoose here. You wrote below that you’re currently using Linux Mint, which is a great distro for beginners. In my opinion, Bazzite offers nothing essential that is not available on Mint. IMHO, the easiest ways to play games are:
You can - of course - still switch to a different distro if you like, but this is not necessary or helpful to run games.
In the specs for the Laptop 13, it says:
Fingerprint Reader (2nd Gen)
Same for the 16, but not the 12.
Unfortunately, the former is not possible due to asinine requirements by the HDMI Forum: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected The only option is to use DisplayPort instead (or perhaps an adapter).
I’ve created a small helper script to help me with this:
#!/bin/bash
USED_VER=$(uname -r)
echo "Kernel version in use: $USED_VER"
echo "Other installed versions:"
dpkg --list 'linux-image*' | grep ^ii | grep -v $USED_VER
echo "Remove unneeded packages above using the following command:"
echo "sudo apt remove linux-image-VERSION"
It prints a list of the installed kernels (excl. the running one) and prints the command to uninstall the packages (it doesn’t remove anything by itself).
I don’t know if there are any differences between the two packages. But, the CachyOS version is part of their official repositories and doesn’t depend on the AUR. I don’t know if that would have any implications regarding how often you need to rebuild the module.