Sir you need to activate your linux XP system.

Exciting stuff.

This triggered me though, lol:

I can only second that, I made the switch early this year and it's made me love my PC again.

I don't think I could've done it "years ago" though, Proton in its current form with a user friendly distro like bazzite haven't been around for too long.

Side note, but I really like when nerds call other people nerds as a term of endearment. It has the same energy as reclaiming a slur, albeit to a much smaller degree because "nerd" isn't a slur

Try LACT for GPU control

I’m fairly ignorant about Linux and what goes on under the hood, so the majority of the text doesn’t mean anything to me.

As someone planning to install Linux Mint who also doesn’t want to accidentally dox myself with a screenshot, could I get an explanation from someone on what is censored out and why?

I've been using Linux for 20 years. It's cool that some games are working on it. Again. It wasn't a problem for me in the Quake 3 days.

Can’t control my case fans

https://github.com/lm-sensors/lm-sensors

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

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface

I've been gaming on Linux for years, but this post gave me the urge to install Windows XP for games.

The bliss theme, complete with activation notice, is very nifty, LOL.

https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc

BTW, this exists.

This is encouraging.

If you have an AMD GPU, look into LACT

Very nice

I have a very similar setup.

Though I was naive enough to get a new fancy x870. It's good when it works, but I was having a shorting problem for a few months before a bios update. And the kernel on the mint install wasn't recent enough for the internet drivers, wired wouldn't even work. I didn't consider myself skilled enough to update the kernel from a usb, so I begrudgingly installed 24.10 Ubuntu

That was a whole other adventure that ended with installing the cinnamon edition later.
But now with the 22.2 beta I'm finally back on mint.😃
Edit: grammar and spelling

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

so... starting hrt when?

My workaround for limited fan control via GPU temps was to just water cool my entire PC. I could have tied it to my water temp, but my components are rarely above 50C. I have two rads though, overkill for my 3080 and 3700X.

At least that’s my excuse, had to justify spending a dumb amount of money for cooling on top of the dumb amount of money already spent on the computer. Basically is spun up for a handful of Rocket League games and that’s about it.

Yeah, I always had a dual-boot system and mostly used Win 10 as my main OS for gaming and Linux for troubleshooting and messing around. With the announcement of Win 10 reaching end-of-life this October, I started to go on my Linux side a bit more to try gaming and I was blown away. So I made the switch last fall to 100% Kubuntu 24.04 on my PC.

I can't believe the progress that's been made with Steam and Proton in recent years. I've always been a huge Linux fan and gamin has always been the only thing blocking me from using it full time. Now I have no reason to use Windows anymore! I'm so happy!

I don't game anymore and tried switching a few times (dual booting) but decades of ingrained Windows made it hard (aka I'm lazy) and a lack of support for programs I did use, like Lightroom).

This time i just took the SSD out and used a fresh drive to install Mint (have sonce moved to LMDE) and fuck the programs that don't want to supoort Linux.

Only difficulty is Darkroom in lieu of Lightroom, and only becase DR is so powerful . I'd been using Libre office and Firefox for years on Windows anyway (Netscape -->, IE --> Chrome --> FF)

I have been thinking about a Steam deck :). I had a WiiU but hardly used it and sold it during Covid so O am a lottke concerned I'll not be bothered. For me tied days most games are I am 15 mins free, moght play a little Bloons on my phone :)

Neat theme.

everything has been running flawlessly.

I have to ask though: Do these monitors not have HDR or VRR and run at the same refresh rate?

Those are the things why I usually wouldn't recommend Mint for high-end gaming rig like yours right now: None of the supported DEs are really ready for Wayland and therefore stuck with those problems (for now).

I have corectrl running and controlling my GPU fans on Linux mint. I have to start it every time I boot since I haven't added it to startup but it works (RX 6900 xt). I have it added from a separate repo that I forget where I found it but I also use mesa drivers forked by some dude in eastern Europe to get ROCm working too.

How old is the Linux mint kernal and and driver? Have you tried a live dvd of a more current distro just to see if those problems aren't solved? Fedora would be a decent example, it is really current. Or an arch derivative.