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So, I was originally just going with Mint 22.1, but I’m getting a 9070xt and see mint is only on kernel 6.8 which doesn’t particularly support it?

Is using it still okay? Should I go with Bazzite instead? Or something else. I’m fine with a little amount of work to get shit working nice and all, I am fine with figuring out how to use the terminal if needed and all, just want something stable to play games and other shit on. Mint sounded good, but not if it won’t support my GPU.

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[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks, that’s very helpful. Sounds like Bazzite will be sufficient then so I’ll just go with that.

[–] pyssla@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It has been my pleasure fam! Enjoy your ride on Bazzite and please consider reporting back on how it went 😉.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Pretty good so far, few things took a while to figure out (keeping specific apps loading on start in the right spot/size, not having it force me to enter a password any time I open my browser, getting protontricks to work, etc.) and sadly still one thing I probably won’t ever be able to fix is getting a program (combat mode for GW2) to actually work as it’s… like 13 years old and just lets me press a button to make my mouse left/right click into keys while the game is up. They have integrated the other functionality of it at least so it’s not THAT bad. Might be able to get my mouse to manually do that if I check out the drivers for it I think someone made.