I recently made the switch to Linux Mint with a partition on my laptop. For work, it has been quite nice, but gaming has been incredibly difficult. I only managed to get one game to run seemingly without issue, which was Factorio, but any other game, Linux native or otherwise, has been an absolute headache to play, if it even runs at all. I’m using Proton and Protondb, but nothing seems to really work. While I’m willing to put in some work to get my games to run, I don’t know how to figure out what is wrong and what I need to do to fix them. So, how do I go about fixing this sort of stuff? My method of trying every single version of Proton with various recommended settings/commands from Protondb has not yielded anything beneficial. Additionally, searching the web with errors has also not yielded any meaningful results. For now, my solution is to switch back to windows if I want to play anything other than Factorio. Thanks for the help.
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What are your computer specifications? How did you install your games?
I have Dell Inspiron 16 Plus with an Intel i7, 32GB of ram, and a 3060m. I installed the games normally through Steam; I didn’t alter the download location, or anything like that.
Did you install proprietary Nvidia drivers through the Driver Manager app?
I believe so, yes. My driver is nvidia-driver-550
Since you mentioned that this is a hybrid-GPU laptop, I’d suggest trying to change your default GPU to Nvidia exclusively from the relevant system tray applet. I did use to use Linux Mint on my old Acer gaming laptop and this helped a lot.