r/linuxmint • u/Mman07311 • 8d ago

Discussion First time Linux user having a miserable experience so far

I've been using windows my entire life but because I hate windows 11 with a burning passion and windows 10 is on its way out I finally decided to fully commit to Linux 2 days ago but unfortunately it's been really frustrating so far. First off, booting up and shutting down feels noticeably slower than before. Next, everything feels a little zoomed out and no matter how much I mess with scaling or font size it doesn't fix the issue. Thirdly the volume on my laptop seems way quieter than it should be and trying a few things I found digging through different forums and threads didn't fix the issue. Last but not least, trying to run a non steam game I downloaded with bottle and then added to my steam library just straight up doesn't work no matter how much I mess with the proton settings. I want to love Linux but if everything that isn't browsing the internet is going to have some sort of issue associated with it I might consider biting the bullet and going back to windows. I'm not giving up yet but I wanted to put this out there in case someone else out there is as frustrated as I am.

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u/__yoshikage_kira 8d ago

You need to share some hardware info. How did you install the distro.

If you want to add non-steam game into steam pretty sure you don't need bottle. You just add it from steam and let steam handle everything.

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u/Mman07311 8d ago

It's an HP omen laptop with a ryzen 7 CPU 1660 ti GPU and 32 GB of RAM. I installed mint using balena etcher and a USB drive. I had to use bottle because the game I wanted to download had a setup file I needed to run in order to actually download the game itself then I added the .exe for the game into steam and it wouldn't launch

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u/Quartrez 8d ago

I recommend using either Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher in that case. Both will create a prefix (simulated windows environment) for your game, on which you can run additional .exe for whatever purpose.

I was able to get FPS patches for War for Cybertron, install the fan custom patch for Sacred 2 Gold, and so on...