I tried switching a few days ago but the performance was so awful for some reason, ended up having to switch back (linux mint)
Sounds like something went wrong with the installation. Mint is overall more performant than windows. What slowed down?
I don’t know the terminology but it slowed down like how a video game slowed down, everything was super choppy as if it had decreased framerate
Mind if I ask some things? If you don’t want to try again, you can ignore this.
Did this happen while you were trying it out on the USB, or had the installation finished and you had removed the USB and restarted?
Were the nvidia d rivers installed in the driver manager? Was there any difference with the open source drivers?
Was secure boot disabled in your BIOS?
Was it a laptop or desktop? In case of laptop it might have been using battery saver mode. installing https://github.com/linrunner/TLP might have helped setting it up properly if you don’t want to handle it yourself.
What graphics card do you have? I can check if there are any compatibility issues, though there shouldn’t be unless it is decades old, in which case you might want to try out one of the more old hardware compatibility focused Linux distros.
Did this happen while you were trying it out on the USB, or had the installation finished and you had removed the USB and restarted?
After I had finished the installation and restarted
Were the nvidia d rivers installed in the driver manager? Was there any difference with the open source drivers?
I don’t know, I don’t use an Nvidia card
Was secure boot disabled in your BIOS?
Yes
Was it a laptop or desktop? In case of laptop it might have been using battery saver mode. installing https://github.com/linrunner/TLP might have helped setting it up properly if you don’t want to handle it yourself.
It’s a desktop PC
What graphics card do you have? I can check if there are any compatibility issues, though there shouldn’t be unless it is decades old, in which case you might want to try out one of the more old hardware compatibility focused Linux distros.
Intel Integrated Graphics 4000 (on a i7-3770 CPU)
(I’m still probably not going to try again for the time being, but I figured I’d answer your questions anyways)
I see. I remember there used to be issues with Intel GPUs on linux back 10-15 years ago, but it should work without issues today.
However, on Linux mint you do have to open the driver manager and select your proprietary graphics driver yourself or you end up with the open source one which is not always as performant (though more backwards compatible). It should have the Intel drivers in there too. In general, only the graphics drivers need to be installed by the user and everything else should be set automatically.
And in the case they were installed, rolling back to an earlier version of the driver might also improve it. It looks like Intel has stopped providing updates to the i7-3770 since a few years back, so a later Intel driver could be causing issues.
It should work without any choppiness in the OS itself, but it might take a bit more configuration than newer ones that generally just immediately work.
Honest question. Is there some particular reason why people are against 11? Except the usual reasons people are against windows?
As far as I can tell it’s mostly the TPM requirement and pushing more ads / AI nonsense.
You can easily avoid the latter by using the LTSC IoT version. I just bought a new (second hand) computer for TPM (my old one was very due for an upgrade).
With the IoT version it’s absolutely fine. Definitely an improvement over Windows 10. The only issue I’ve noticed is it doesn’t come with Windows Game bar or some nonsense so after you run games you’ll get a random dialog about there not being an app available to handle ms-gamelink URLs or something. You can just ignore it. I might fix it one day.
Pro version, install with English UK language and throwaway email account, disable the crap in the settings once install is completed, takes less time than to fiddle with Linux to make it work like you want it to…
Sounds like a lot more fiddling then just going to linux
After spending a day making my wifi antenna work on Mint (when it’s supposedly compatible out of the box?), no, it’s not.
The last time i installed mint in like 2013 it took less than 45 miinutes. I’m sure in 2025 it’s a much more of a smooth experience.
As long as everything works the way it should, sure, I installed it less than a year ago and it wasn’t smooth. Just managing the fact that my computer was plugged to a monitor and a 65" TV was a pain in the ass if I didn’t want to have to fiddle with display settings every time I switched from one to the other, which isn’t an issue on Windows…
That’s a bit of an esoteric setup connected to a monitor and tv so i imagine it would take some extra finagling to set up. Maybe there is some sofware thay could help?
