What’s up, guys, gals, and non-binary pals? I switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint back in December 2024, and I catalogued my experiences in these posts:

Just wanted to let you nerds know that everything has been running flawlessly. I can play any game I have, and none of my productivity is blocked. Doesn’t matter whether it’s all my ROMs I archived, my Steam games, GOG games, whatever. Linux plays them, and performance is fantastic. I don’t play any anti-cheat games as the only one I do play periodically is Overwatch, and it runs perfect.

I can without a doubt now say that I will never go back to Windows. Should have switched years ago!

Build specs (the full list is in my first post linked above):

  • CPU 9800x3d
  • GPU RX 7900 XTX

Here are some issues I still can’t solve on Linux Mint:

  • Can’t control my GPU fans
  • Can’t control my case fans
  • Can’t bind my case fans to ramp up with GPU load

I’ve tried CoreCTRL and so many other solutions I read online, and none of them work. Problem for another day! So all I’ve done for now is increase the count of intake fans I have and set it to a good speed to move plenty of air (but also set my exhaust fans higher to help counter and ensure proper positive pressure airflow. I have too many fans to get the ideal balance of neutral air flow). GPU runs with OEM fan speeds.

Edit: There’s a bug in pasting instance agnostic links, so I just added direct URLs to my instance posts.

  • metalaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Hi. I am so fucking tired of windows bullshit. Do you think running a GTX 3090 is feasible with the current driver landscape?

    • brendansimms@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’m running an rtx 4070 on mint-cinnamon. Works great. I know that’s a different GPU but just sharing that nvidia drivers + mint are working just fine for me.

    • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I wouldn’t see any problems there. My server I’m currently building is running Linux Mint. I tossed in my RTX 3080 and it works flawlessly. No headache, no problems trying to configure it. Just booted it, LM detected it, and I clicked update and bam it works great. That card was originally in my Windows PC before I switched to LM and swapped the card for an AMD RX 7900 XTX.

    • Yeller_king@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      If it helps, you can get pop os with Nvidia drivers pre-installed and configured. That helped me a lot.