My time with Linux has been equal parts amazing and absolutely infuriating. Linux Mint is NOT usable out of the box. Here have been my issues:

Nvidia GPU - Trying to figure out how to get the drivers working was a nightmare with ten million different people giving different advice on how to get it to work. Eventually I was able to get them signed and it seems to work

Bluetooth - Another nightmare. Bluetooth is terrible on Linux. It took hours to get it even remotely working ok, but I still don’t think it’s perfect.

Compatibility - Some things just straight up don’t work for seemingly no reason. None of my controllers work with Steam, no matter how many countless hours I’ve spent troubleshooting.

And that is where I am disappointed. Troubleshooting Linux issues sucks. There are so many people giving their opinions and all of them are different and most don’t work.

When Linux is working right it is amazing, and I love it. But right now, it just isn’t as good as Windows and extremely infuriating more often than not. Guess I am going to switch back and give Bill Gates all of my info again. Really fucking disappointing

Update: Controllers seem to work after forcing compatibility mode in Steam. No idea why that was off or why Steam was essentially hijacking my controller, but it seems to work now. For everyone that helped thank you.

    • Nabuu
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      1 day ago

      If you have issues with your controllers with the flatpak I would try switching to the native package. There should be a .deb package for steam. If it doesn’t change the behavior, then I would assume something else is causing a problem.

      You can also install flatseal and try messing with the dbus setting, should be like half way down the menu for the steam flatpak. Since flatpaks are usually not given access to the entire system I could see it not having the correct permissions.

      • Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.worldOP
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        1 day ago

        Thanks! I tried switching to the deb package and it was all the same issues. I think I got it working though. Just forced compatibility in Steam and it eventually worked. Still don’t fully understand why.

        • Nabuu
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          7 hours ago

          Glad you got it working! I turn that setting on for all my games and I honestly didn’t even think about asking if you had it on.