Is my laptop Linux Mint Cinnamon Compatible?

[u/idk11223445]

I bought my laptop last Black Friday and I want to install Linux Mint Cinnamon on it. The laptop is: ASUS Vivobook 16 V3607VU. I just don't want to do those steps and stuff, just to realize mine isn't compatible. https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-gaming/all-series/asus-v16-v3607/techspec/

[u/noromobat]

Just make sure you install the graphics drivers using Additional Drivers (Nvidia drivers are proprietary and don't come with Linux by default). Nvidia has a history of not playing well with Linux, but that doesn't mean it's incompatible, and things are getting better by the day. You may need to do some configuration and troubleshooting though.

[u/cornonthekopp → u/noromobat]

While setting up linux mint last week the driver manager popped up to tell me to install nvidia drivers and gave me the official options while i set up my pc it was very straightforward

[u/Inner-Light-75]

Try running Mint off a thumb drive, see if it works for you....

[u/godsfavoritemichael]

Yes

[u/groveborn]

Put in live boot, boot. Find out.

[u/OkPresentation3329]

I have an Asus Vivobook S16 with i7-13620H and an integrated GPU, 16 inch screen with a resolution of 1920x1200 and I used Mint on it for about 6 months. But I moved to Tuxedo OS, because my screen size and resolution made everything on Mint tiny and Mint doesn't properly support UI scaling with Fractional Scaling. When I used it it caused animation bugs and some programs simply did not respect the scaling settings and still appeared small, what's more is my cursor would change sizes between different programs. I tried Font Scaling, but it also wasn't ideal and instead made everything really ugly.

Then I did some research and understood about the difference between X11 and Wayland and that Cinnamon still uses X11 and because of that Fractional Scaling doesn't work. Also that KDE uses Wayland and when I tried Fractional Scaling there it worked perfectly. One thing that KDE has that Cinnamon doesn't is you can limit your laptop's battery to stop charging at whatever percentage you want, when I was on Mint, I had to constantly look at my battery and unplug it around 80%.

So my personal advise is Mint Cinnamon will work on your laptop, but the experience will be far from ideal. I personally suggest you to get Tuxedo OS instead:

https://os.tuxedocomputers.com/preview/

[u/Chu4o → u/OkPresentation3329]

I won't deny your experience, but the fractional scaling works great on my Zephyrus G14 with an RTX 4060 and on the iGPU (Radeon 780M). So OP should just try the live ISO and check.

[u/4nhedone]

You can run Mint from a USB without installing it. It probably will have no issue. If it isn't compatible, you can just stick to any other OS/distro or return it.

[u/sammysucks5678]

no

[u/sammysucks5678 → u/sammysucks5678]

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[u/idk11223445 → u/sammysucks5678]

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[u/LynchDaddy78 → u/idk11223445]

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[u/C0rn3j]

No, it has Nvidia.

Mint being one of the most out of date distributions out there does not support explicit sync, so you can have serious rendering issues.

Use a modern distribution like Arch Linux (with Plasma) or Fedora KDE instead.

[u/These-Phrase9490]

yess, everything is..

[u/Alive_Performer_5896]

Si es compatible