I have steam-devices and same issues. No luck at all. Thanks for the response.

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had so much trouble with Linux. I understand the frustration that comes with Unix based OSes especially after being a heavy Windows user for years.

I did a bit of searching on your profile and saw you’re dual-booting with Windows on the same hard drive. I personally had issues with trying to set that up myself (Windows is a finicky, jealous b****). My own solution was installing my distro of choice onto a separate hard drive - if you can eventually do that I recommend it.

I know you’re getting a lot of flak for your post but it’s good to see honest opinions from people who genuinely want to try Linux but aren’t necessarily the same level of hyper-nerd as the typical demographic here.

Having information from a wider opinion pool will help in understanding how to get Linux to more of the population - but that’s a side tangent.

It’s encouraging to see that you are still open to trying in the future and taking a break from it can help you clear your head and come back with fresher eyes.

Unfortunately I don’t have much experience with NVIDIA drivers, and probably a similar amount of troubleshooting as Mint but I’ve found EndeavourOS to be friendlier to a middle-upper tech/gamer use case. Mint, for me, seemed cold and “office”-y and didn’t work well for me as I don’t only use my browser and word processor.

That said, distros are an almost ridiculously personal choice and part of that is trial and error. If you haven’t gotten the chance I recommend test driving a couple other distros in an Oracle VM (for user-friendliness) so you can decide what you like the feel of before committing to an install again.

Good luck and godspeed until then.

That's even worse. PS5 controllers work out of the box, basically cementing that this is a bluetooth driver issue. Did you make sure to install your bluetooth drivers?

What is your bluetooth device model? Does the driver come in the kernel, or does it require you to explicitly install?

Windows does not require secure boot.

Windows 11 absolutely does require secure boot

I thought the driver came in the kernel. I am trying to use it wired, not Bluetooth. If I use lsusb it recognizes the Dualsense controller. It's so weird

https://www.makeuseof.com/rufus-bypass-tpm-secure-boot-requirements-windows-11/

Oh nice. Fuck I might do that

Thanks for the reply. My next build will not have windows on it at all, If I can help it. Honestly mint is great and was working amazing until I had to reinstall it.

I appreciate it

Thanks for the response I appreciate it

It's probably because I come off as a whiny bitch, which I do. Lol just frustrated.

I tried installing a VM but man it was really laggy. I used the open source one on linix, not virtualbox. I probably fucked something up, though.

My whole life up until last September when I first installed mint

Do you see the paradox here? You expect to be as proficient as you might be with something you've used your entire life with something you've only used on and off for a couple of months...

I'm having this issue, I don't want to switch OFF of mint since it's so familiar now, but I would like better nvidia support. Tried arch a few times but really struggled

If you have newer hardware mint isnt what you wanna use. It is more stability focused. There are other distros that arr more geared towards faster updates and supporting new stuff faster.

Wasn't a fan of mint when I tried it. IMO, I found popOS to be an overall better experience when I first started using Linux and have since switched back to it after having a few issues on Fedora.

You might give that a shot especially if you are using nivida. PopOS hasn't given me much grief (aside from Gnome but that's more a personal distaste for it)

Even after being on Linux for a year and considering myself a fairly capable guy in tech, Linux is kind of a pain in the ass if you're doing more complicated things like in my case music production.

But it sounds like you've had an even worse go doing normal things which sucks. I feel for you man. I hope your next go is better.

It took me a few tries and Windows being a privacy nightmare to switch. It can be done but it wasn't (and still isnt) easy.