I’m running kubuntu which I find runs well with no issues (Intel with an NVIDIA card) and plays every game Ive tried to play. I chose kubuntu because I’m more experienced with debian based distros and I like KDE, but I do feel like maybe I should have gone with fedora and KDE instead. Can’t really be bothered to distro hop right now though.
Interesting, what hasn’t worked? Im running a desktop so might be having less issues due to less bespoke hardware.
I ran it on an Intel/NVIDIA laptop about 10 years ago and had a lot of trouble getting the graphics to work well, particularly the Optimus switching. It never felt like it was working properly and graphics were always sub par to what I got running windows. It was a long time ago in computing terms though.
Kde is laggy in general, taking a full second or longer to do things like open the start menu or other menus.
Graphical glitches on the secondary display, especially in 2d things like steam or various kde menus. displays are mirrored, btw.
Volume slider appears randomly in the middle of both screens, no apparant cause.
Some games that worked fine under windows don’t work anymore, like cyberpunk 2077 (which is known to be better under proton than native windows).
Sound sometimes doesn’t work, don’t know why.
To resolve this, I tried to switch him over to Mint, because that’s what I use and it’s great on my machine so I should have tried that first. Laptop won’t boot that live usb.
edit: another one, cannot open the driver control menu (I forget what it’s called) at all.
I’m running kubuntu which I find runs well with no issues (Intel with an NVIDIA card) and plays every game Ive tried to play. I chose kubuntu because I’m more experienced with debian based distros and I like KDE, but I do feel like maybe I should have gone with fedora and KDE instead. Can’t really be bothered to distro hop right now though.
So I put kubuntu on my bf’s laptop (intel/nvidia), and it’s been a painfully bad experience.
Interesting, what hasn’t worked? Im running a desktop so might be having less issues due to less bespoke hardware.
I ran it on an Intel/NVIDIA laptop about 10 years ago and had a lot of trouble getting the graphics to work well, particularly the Optimus switching. It never felt like it was working properly and graphics were always sub par to what I got running windows. It was a long time ago in computing terms though.
Kde is laggy in general, taking a full second or longer to do things like open the start menu or other menus.
Graphical glitches on the secondary display, especially in 2d things like steam or various kde menus. displays are mirrored, btw.
Volume slider appears randomly in the middle of both screens, no apparant cause.
Some games that worked fine under windows don’t work anymore, like cyberpunk 2077 (which is known to be better under proton than native windows).
Sound sometimes doesn’t work, don’t know why.
To resolve this, I tried to switch him over to Mint, because that’s what I use and it’s great on my machine so I should have tried that first. Laptop won’t boot that live usb.
edit: another one, cannot open the driver control menu (I forget what it’s called) at all.
Holy moly, that’s a lot of issues. Seems like there’s something else going on with that laptop given mint won’t even boot …
My 2012 MBP has Intel/ Nvidia graphics and every distribution I’ve ever tried has struggled with that, it seems to just be the way of things.
Have it working perfectly now (disabling Nvidia altogether) but involved both an NVRAM tweak and VGA Switcheroo.
Many distros have failed to even boot to the live USB on that Mac.