SOLUTION: Apparently there’s some sort of bug in xwayland that causes Steam games to flicker, so “downgrading” to X11 solved it (for now). Now all I need to know is how to file a bug report for this.
I’m trying to set up a Linux install for my mom (Ultramarine KDE on Wayland), and all her (2) Steam games are flickering. I thought it was from fractional scaling, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Her games don’t flicker on Windows, and I’ve already tried multiple versions of Proton. I’m not quite sure what’s happening, and any help would be appreciated.
Specs
- OS: Ultramarine Linux KDE Edition
- Host: Dell Inspiron 15 3511
- CPU: Intel Core i5-1035G1
- GPU:
pretty sure it uses integrated graphicsapparently it uses Nvidia? First time I’ve seen that, gonna have to remember that in the future.Both Linux and Windows are using integrated graphics with no sign of Nvidia anywhere??
If you need any more information, please ask me
Edit: other than the flickering, her games run perfectly fine.
Edit 2: Just learned my mom’s laptop model has a discrete Nvidia GPU, gonna troubleshoot that in a bit.
Edit 3: Her laptop doesn’t seem to have anything Nvidia inside, despite the fact that the Dell website says her laptop should, weird…
Many laptops have either discrete or integrated GPUs.
The command inxi -G should list display drivers. If you don’t have inxi installed, sudo dnf install inxi.
Google chrome from rpm fusion non-free repo is fine, google chrome flatpak is fine Google chrome .deb package is fine on mint. There’s no controversy’s about browsers worth basing your distro choice on. Better yet, export her shit to Firefox and tell her she’s using that now.
Already tried that, for some reason it won’t copy some of her autofill information (this is stopping her from fully switching over).
That’s rough
Use Bitwarden.
inxi only seems to see the integrated graphics, weird. I’m starting to doubt that her laptop even has a discrete Nvidia card inside…