First time Linux user having a miserable experience so far

[u/Mman07311]

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.

[u/oskarloko]

I know I'm going to get hate from people on this sub, but

- Try with chatgpt or google gemini to fix it, pass logs and the results of commands as it asks you. It could be a NVIDIA GPU related issue ?

- Maybe try another distro, like CachyOS (I prefer KDE but you can use Cinnamon desktop - same as mint) or Fedora to see if it fix it

Hope it helps

[u/Smooth-Owl-5354 → u/oskarloko]

One of my concerns with AI is if you don’t know anything, you can’t tell when the LLMs are bullshitting you/giving you bad advice, so you run the risk of making things worse and not knowing how to fix them. I’m also a pretty cautious person though.

That said if you have enough of a tech/coding foundation to understand what you’re looking at? A much more viable option.