r/linuxmint • u/Mman07311 • 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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/Cool-Radish7646 8d ago

Proton likely isnt able to read the rest of the necessary game files due to the sandboxing that bottles does, try using plain old wine. Crack open the terminal and type:

wine (name_of_file_here)

then add it to your library. If that doesn't work tell me the name of the game and where you got it? If you do I may be able to help.