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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by Pooge on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:18PM (#48126208)
In good faith, you can't really say "[x] is shit" if you don't have an usual setup; X11 is no longer the default on most distros. Even when I was also using it, it never crashed.

I don't know whether your GPU is older than mine or not but I have the RX 7700XTX. Maybe it had a software defect...

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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by traderj0e on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @03:50PM (#48126557)
Linux Mint uses X11 for some reason. I was getting black screen after sleep because of that. Nuked it and installed Ubuntu, worked fine.
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by HDBaseT on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:24PM (#48129000)
Mint has experimental Wayland support right now. The future for Mint is Wayland.
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Re:Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming ... by traderj0e on Thursday May 14, 2026 @02:25PM (#48139227)
That's good to hear. When I was troubleshooting this, I kept seeing forum posts screaming about how they're sticking to X11 cause Wayland is bad. Uh, idk idc, ship has sailed already.
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