I remember when Proton launched it was like magic playing games like Doom and Nier Automata straight from the Linux Steam client with excellent performance. I do not miss the days of having the Windows version of Steam installed separately.

  • rasensprenger@feddit.de
    51·
    9 months ago

    Borking an entire install by pressing buttons on a monotor is pretty difficult. What exactly were you doing? Did you ask your OS’ community for support?

    • Twospoons@lemmy.world
      4·
      9 months ago

      All I did was on first install go to display settings and change to 144hz in the OS and screen then goes black and never came back. Force a shutdown and boots back to a black screen after login.

      I was eventually able to change things back to 60hz and working through booting to cli but 144 never wanted to work (am admittedly using Nvidia card).

      So not completely borked but not ideal at all.

      • rasensprenger@feddit.de
        2·
        9 months ago

        Ah yeah nvidia can be painful, especially if you want wayland. But this seems to be a simple modesetting issue, I’m sure there are some known workarounds. You can also report driver bugs directly to nvidia, but I don’t know if that will do much.

      • rasensprenger@feddit.de
        3·
        9 months ago

        Well even if the user doesn’t really know what they’re doing, things shouldn’t easily break, that’s just bad.

        • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social
          1·
          9 months ago

          I’m not convinced this is a valid statement:

          If only Linux wouldn’t Bork my whole install when I try to switch to 144hz on my monitor.

          If he says his install is borked I believe him. If he says it’s “just” because he tried to switch to 144hz on his monitor, eh…

          Edit: Also sounds like nvidia binary blob driver. Odd to me that he didn’t get the “do you want to keep these settings” prompt, and that it didn’t revert when he didn’t click yes though.