Yeah. It’s another one of these. But! Here me out! So I have some experience using Linux. Run some VMs for services I run in my home, I switched my surface book 3 (funnily enough) to ubuntu for my work computer as I was getting more and more frustrated by windows 11 and it turned out really good. Was able to completely get off windows and i didn’t miss out on anything. Now. Ive been trying to migrate my gaming rig to Linux with… Not a lot of success. I have 3 monitors plugged into it, a Samsung crg49 and then 2 small no name brand monitors I like for websites and discord and stuff while I play on the Samsung monitor. On windows it works flawlessly. No Linux distro I’ve used has been able to handle it and I’m not sure how I should be approaching this. Running games has been fine. I use lutris and have been able to play pretty much everything I’ve wanted to with some tweaking. But whether a few hours or a few days, eventually I start having issues with the displays. Monitors will black out. Not boot. Eventually the whole system just stops working in a way that I can figure out. I have a ryzen 3700x, and a Nvidia 2080ti. 64GB of RAM. all my storage is nvme. I have tried most major distros. Mostly Ubuntu is what I have experience with. I have tried some others like nobara, but performance was awful, and display management was an issue. Ive never really installed other desktop environments other than what comes with those distros, so if it’s a matter of “use distro x, but you need to install weyland” then sure. Just let me know that’s something I need to do. 😋 So… What do you suggest I run? I really dont want to go back to windoze. It’s just awful these days.
Just use Mint.
I’m on Mint 20 and had an unreasonable number of monitor configurations. Initially tallscreen + square, then tallscreen + square + 32-inch HDTV, then tallscreen + widescreen + TV, then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV (because I ran out of desk), then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV + widescreen on the floor as a dedicated AGDQ window, and now I’m only using an enormous 4K TV.
I’ve had issues, but never “it can’t handle it” issues. My little RX 580 occasionally produced a black frame on one monitor or other - I assume because none of them ever had identical refresh rates. The larger issue was instantly forgetting my monitor configuration every time one of them was unplugged or lost power. As if losing the square monitor caused the rotated screen to fall over.
Mint or Zorin for those with windows experience, Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh, are all great “just works” distros. Don’t overthink it, OP!
Still sour about one fucking guy deciding to flip the interface to left-handed the day before a long-term feature freeze.