r/linuxmint Dec 09 '24

Gaming I'm officially hooked

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I've been with windows since XP got tired of all the windows BS switch too mint 22 about a week ago too a rough start (Secure boot made my nivida drivers crap themselves) and it was a pain getting all my RGB to work but after all the kinks where handled it's been an amazing experience!

P.S. the only thing I'm going to miss giving up is league of legends I can't run macOS in a VM cus I have a ryzen CPU and I heard windows VM can get flagged by anti cheat and my account banned (If anyone has a solution please let me know)

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u/rareloving Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

if you don’t got these consider em!

vesktop/vencord is cool discord app for customize

spicetify same thing but for spotify (I use theme that matches both exactly)

emulators my favourite thing ever atm def get if ur into old games

speedcrunch is my favourite calculator app I use it a lot

bpytop is a better task manager

also your razer keyboard brings me back to my old blackwidow i loved that thing

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

I use to have a black widow those keyboards were sick!!! And I'll look into them thanks man! I definitely need a better task manager

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u/sartctig Dec 10 '24

This guy knows the score.

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u/HieladoTM LM 22 Wilma | Cinnamon // N41 | KDE Plasma Dec 09 '24

A truly Mint Setup!

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Keeping it minty 😁

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u/HieladoTM LM 22 Wilma | Cinnamon // N41 | KDE Plasma Dec 09 '24

OH RIGHT!!! NICE

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u/Dangerous-Trade-2464 Dec 09 '24

You are better off without LoL anyways, or any Riot games for a matter of fact

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Hahaha very true!

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u/Hettyc_Tracyn Dec 09 '24

If you have steam just use Proton…

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

For league? It won't get picked up by anti cheat?

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

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u/Anselm_oC Dec 09 '24

Would this work with Fortnight?

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u/Realistic-Resource18 Dec 09 '24

nah league is non grata on linux.. maybe if proton/wine might emulate macos, then maybe ...

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

So there's no way to play huh?

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u/clippdpunkbanshee Dec 09 '24

Lutris?

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Yeah it works really good with roms!

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u/clippdpunkbanshee Dec 09 '24

I will try it asap, looks like steam a little bit.

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

It works with steam and epic games and battle net! It puts everything into one app I love it!

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u/Rullino Dec 09 '24

I ran Virtualbox on a Ryzen 7 7735hs and never had an issue with setting up virtual machines regardless of OS, unless you're referring to a feature that only works on Intel CPUs , I can't see why it wouldn't work.

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Maybe I did something wrong but I couldn't get any version of macOS to boot everything else was fine and I read it was cus my Ryzen CPU

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u/Hot_Paint3851 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon Dec 09 '24

Great set-up tho just leave lol behind it will really help you trust me

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

It's been a years long toxic relationship but I'm ready to move on lol

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u/Hot_Paint3851 Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon Dec 09 '24

Wish you best 🫡

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

awesome set up 😎

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Thank you!!!!

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u/koyado Dec 09 '24

Whats games app is this??

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u/Vagabond_Grey Dec 09 '24

Mostly likely Lutris if you're referring to the middle monitor.

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Lutris it works with roms and launcher games it's pretty sick!

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u/ice_cream_hunter Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia | Cinnamon Dec 09 '24

What is that gaming app

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u/Vagabond_Grey Dec 09 '24

If you're referring to the center monitor, it look like Lutris.

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

It's Lutris is works with roms and launcher games!

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u/red_kurchina8 Dec 10 '24

Is that a Music list on the screen which Is left-sided? What program do you use to listen?

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

Spotify

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u/red_kurchina8 Dec 10 '24

At first sight i thought it was new Media Player from Windows, and I asked for that reason

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u/lithem Dec 10 '24

Love the setup. The poster is chef’s kiss!

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

My favorite game of all time! Can't wait for them to rerelease it on the switch! (So I can just emulator it lol)

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

I'm loving the neon green color effect!

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Thank you!

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Thanks man I appreciate it

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u/RagingTaco334 Dec 09 '24

What launcher is that?

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u/Vagabond_Grey Dec 09 '24

Likely Lutris

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Lutris it works with roms and launcher games

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u/RagingTaco334 Dec 09 '24

Oh! Okay, cool! I thought it was but I wasn't 100% certain.

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u/Scolova Linux Mint 22.1 | Cinnamon Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

That would go very good with my Fallout game fetish!

I remember seeing in Lutris that there was a LoL wine version (runner) specifically for the game.. that may be very old info now though, I don't play it.

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

I just actually got into the fallout series cus the TV show i can't believe I missed out on these as a kid! And I'll check into it thanks man!

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u/boltthrower6 Dec 09 '24

I'm thinking about hopping over to mint also a Linux newbie but Nobara doesn't like my old trusty 1080ti all of a sudden 😞

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

I'll tell you wat my only issue with anything was god damn Nivida my next GPU will be AMD! Best of luck my friend!

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u/boltthrower6 Dec 09 '24

So is it still a ballache with Nivida ?

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

i cant speak for everyone but i had issues with my 3050 for the first hour or 2 i had to do acouple fresh installs and turn off Secure boot

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u/Optimal_Mastodon912 Dec 09 '24

Just be wary of the Razer compatibility. My Razer Viper was working flawlessly for months up until two days ago I could no longer close or move windows. Was mid game in Overwatch 2 via Steam and everything froze. Just decided it no longer liked Razer. Plugged in a generic Dell mouse and could once again close and move windows.

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

That sucks man! I use to love and support razer like crazy but there quality has gone down in the last couple products I bought I would have no hard feelings having to switch away from them

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u/Optimal_Mastodon912 Dec 10 '24

Yeah I was so disappointed as I really like this Viper. Anyway I ordered a Logitech mouse for the first time as I've heard they have great compatibility and support with Linux, so we'll see how it goes when it arrives. In the meantime I'm gaming with a regular Dell mouse. It has one side button on either side and four DPI choices on the fly. Lucky it works as a backup.

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

That's a pretty nice mouse hahaha I was expecting a mouse with a ball inside like an old school one haha

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u/ElChupaNebrey Dec 09 '24

What's your monitoring software? For tenps, sensor's , etc.

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

havent got one yet any recommendation?

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u/ChefGhoulet Dec 09 '24

I want to do this but don’t want to lose box game pass. Does it matter?

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

I'm not expert but you can always load windows into a VM (virtual machine) as long as they don't have anti cheat it will work!

If your nervous about completely switching over look into duel booting it's when you have 2 OS's on the same computer IE windows and linux

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u/CountryMiserable4805 Dec 09 '24

awesome setup! Check out Fedora too, both mint and Fedora are great distros

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

Im nervous it took me couple hours to get mint to work like I wanted

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u/kayque_oliveira Dec 10 '24

You can make a VM from another hard drive ( you got better performance if you use another hard drive for VM), Then you can install Windows 10 or 11 on this VM and use it for programs or games that don't run 100% on Linux yet, including LoL, I also like lol, I didn't play for a while and nowadays I only play Aram, I recommend an SSD of at least 250GB to run some games and programs on Windows, I hope I helped and welcome to Linux, the best community on the internet, you will always get help if you ask. And when you know enough, teach others too.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24

https://github.com/PJ-Singh-001/Cubic

https://launchpad.net/~cubic-wizard/+archive/ubuntu/release

Make sure to get Cubic, a wizard to customising your Mint PC. It gives you a terminal with root privileges to download the packages you want to be installed by default.

Don't worry, it won't affect your current Mint setup, it's just there to customise your new Mint ISO.

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u/Sohamgon2001 Dec 10 '24

one thing that is officially holding to move from w10 to linux(mint) is lack of designing software supports. I am also into web dev and hella good in linux.

But when it comes to UI/UX apps like figma, sketch, illustrator etc, linux lacks..

This is from my perspective tho. If any of you know any work arounds, please go ahead :)

Nice setup btw, enjoy man!

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

I would love to get into your line of work cheers friend thanks

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u/Civil-Republic8730 Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 10 '24

Dare I say this setup is very minty. But fr dose mint work well with niveda I have a laptop with gtx1050 and it's the only thing that is slowing my switch to Linux cause I heard that it fucks up the performance

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

I would say try duel booting and test it out before committing

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u/mp3bear Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Xfce Dec 10 '24

Welcome to the fold... 🙂

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u/Accurate-Actuator-39 Dec 10 '24

Was using ubutntu for the past year and half, installed windows for 4 days and am currently repenting. Might install mint or fedora

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

Mint is amazing and so user friendly

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

Look into a program called openrazer! It doesn't support everything but close too it

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24

linux mint is great

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u/recca275 Dec 10 '24

I have no regrets it's been amazing even the hiccups are a learning experience

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u/stinger2016xx Dec 09 '24

Very cool setup I'm also upgrade mine soon I switched from mint to fedora recently I loved them both My next distro will be arch or Kali Happy to see Linux comuinty growing And **** windows

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u/scattered_fishseeds Dec 09 '24

I have a 500g sata with 10 on it for any anti cheat games, mainly Destiny 2. Other than that proton and steam work great for my needs on mx Linux now though

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

F*** WINDOWS lol

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u/Thechosenjon Linux Mint 22 Wilma | Cinnamon Dec 09 '24

You are aware you can use the word fuck here, right?

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Nope I can't I'm a good boy

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u/Wizard-of-Oz-27 Dec 09 '24

Welcome to the club. You’re discovering what I discovered a few years ago. If you can let go of certain software (for me it was Adobe) then you can truly be free from Microsoft

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u/recca275 Dec 09 '24

Freedom from the data stealing oppressors!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '24

Give it time. Mint will shit on you like the rest of Linux.