cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100

Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.

  • PeroBasta@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    In my Linux mint I downgraded to playing only 1080p because 4k is very laggy and filled with artifacts.

    I have a mini optiplex 7070 with 32GB of ram, Intel processor (not a powerful one).but in windows 11 I could play 4k content with no issue.

    • mech@feddit.org
      6·
      1 day ago

      Mint ships an old kernel by default. But there’s a GUI that lets you install a newer one.
      This would most likely fix your issue.
      Or do you have an nVidia graphics card and didn’t install the proprietary driver?

      • PeroBasta@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 hours ago

        No graphic (its integrated with the CPU). Ill have a look

        Edit: realized that i didnt specify videos. I want to play 4k videos, not gaming

        • mech@feddit.org
          1·
          6 hours ago

          In that case, you’re missing codecs.
          For video players, they’d be called gstreamer-plugin, and for Firefox they may be missing in the distro repo’s version if it focusses on open source software.
          The version from Flathub has them.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        My other thought is screen tearing and similar. I think Mint still ships with X rather than Wayland and screen tearing is a pretty infamous limitation with Xserver

    • doodoo_wizard@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 day ago

      See if you have qsv decoding support enabled. The Intel CPUs in those little mini pcs usually have a video card that will do the heavy lifting using a system called quick sync video but if you’re isn’t set up to decode in hardware then it’s gonna have to do all the work in software and that’s slow.

    • some_random_nick@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      You could try one of the “gaming” focused distros like Cachy or Bazzite. They do their own tweaks to squeeze more performance out of you hardware. Sadly, many game won’t reach the performance level of Windows, but you can get pretty close, like 85-90% close (depends highly on the game in question, no guarantees).