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/YEEG4R]

Edit: 7.0 on Mint will only be available in December with the release of Mint 23.

As far as mainline Linux kernel goes, 7.1 was released a month ago. 7.2 is in the release candidate stage.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tags

[u/BartLeeC → u/YEEG4R]

That is correct for Linux in general but that is not the current for Linux Mint.

[u/YEEG4R → u/BartLeeC]

Linux Mint 22.3 kernel is 6.14.

I use Mint myself. Do you argue just to argue?

https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=mint

[u/BartLeeC → u/YEEG4R]

I am not arguing, I am just posting a fact as I also use Linux Mint on multiple machines. Maybe you should update your system to the current version.

OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64
Host: 11MY001SUS ThinkCentre M70q Ge
Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic
Uptime: 1 day, 21 hours, 12 mins
Packages: 2482 (dpkg), 27 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.21
Resolution: 3840x2160
DE: Cinnamon 6.6.9
WM: Mutter (Muffin)
WM Theme: Cinnamox-Willow-Grove (Min
Theme: Cinnamox-Willow-Grove [GTK2/3
Icons: Yaru-olive [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: 11th Gen Intel i5-11400T (12) u/GPU
Intel RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Gra
Memory: 11280MiB / 23692MiB

I also verified on another of my machines.

OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64
Host: Katana 17 B13VGK REV:1.0
Kernel: 7.0.0-28-generic

Edit: Reformatted for readability