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Hahaha - update on issue, it was my switch, but not the switch, I think WHEN I used the the switch (like toggling between my other machine) it made things mad until I rebooted. Then when I rebooted it was fine until I used the switch again. So I just changed the things I used on the switch and everything is kosher now.

Okay it’s actually fixed now. Games are running smoothly and shaders are loading better. It must have been a funky driver.

Follow up - issue came back. I’m thinking it may be hardware or driver at this point. I am going to mess with that this evening and I will report back.

If that doesn’t work - I will do the os refresh bc I haven’t actually done that yet.

Edit: this is more of a log for myself at this point, but I am refreshing the os now.

edit two, the editing: refresh complete. will update tomrrow.

I think I actually fixed it?

i tried to do an os refresh but kept getting some generic error bc the backup partition wouldnt update?

after a bunch of fumbling around I actually slowed down and took a second to read the errors and saw an error for a game i had removed.

so after ducking around (intentional duckduckgo pun) i found the sudo apt purge command and zapped it

then i followed https://support.system76.com/articles/upgrade-pop/ and some things happened and downloaded and i rebooted

and its working now? I will know for sure if its working if doesn’t start happening again in an hour.

but i think it might be good to go based on that experience.

Edit: continues to work. Might be solid. Will report back tomorrow.

So I turned off fractional scaling (i did that before as well and nothing changed) and ran more updates and then shut down and rebooted- issue seems to be stopped for the moment.

if it comes back, I will create an update post. Thanks!

edit - it did come back but see response below.

I’m going to attempt an os refresh and see if that does anything.

Will report back.

My dude. Thank you

Could you link those key caps by chance? Love everything about this.

Uh… Mr. The Plague… Uh. Something weird is happening on the net…

I recommend pop_os! My life is so much better after abandoning Windows for pop_os.

Oh yeah, forgot about that. Thank for hurting me again as I repressed that memory.

Epic owns Bandcamp.

You are smarter than me!

Erp - new to Linux gaming, I forget about protondb.

Thanks for the heads up!

Hopefully itll work when it’s out of beta.

I switched for a few reason:

• I didn’t like Windows advertising to me on my desktop.
• Lemmy exposed me to a lot of options.
• I felt like if I had any issues, the community would assist, and they did.

Now that I have switched

• Pop!_os feels like home.
• Many of my games run BETTER on Linux.
• I know I will not be a product.
• I feel more secure
• It has been fun learning something new
• There are so many choices beyond iOS and Windows
• I wish I switched sooner.

…I just didn’t want windows advertising to me.

This happens to me sometimes, I am running pop_os. It hasn’t been a particular window / program that does it, just seem to happen when something is thinking harder than usual. Then it goes away, I ynno, I’m not a screen scientist.

This is a fair point. There are a few more things to factor in from a Mac standpoint, but once you figure out the fiddley things you need to do foe installation, I am fairly certain you can use a wide range of distros

Again. I am a total noob. This just comes from my googling and watching YouTube on a few things.

I think all operating system have their plusses and minuses.

I would suggest dual booting and trying out a distro before fully jumping ship.

There are a lot of distros to choose from, but installing Linux is a pretty easy task.

You’ll essentially just need to boot into BIOS and the boot from a USB that you’ve mounted an ISO on for the distro of your choice.

I am using Pop!_os and personally, I love it. It has a MacOS feel, but it’s not a locked in ecosystem.

https://distrochooser.de/

You can use this site to get a feel for your options - Elementary OS is another that has a MacOS feel.

Once you land on a distro you want to try out - YouTube will be your friend, there are 1000 videos out there to show you how to set a up a dual boot.

Just make sure you back up ALL of your files before you start anything just to be safe.