That's a bad example .... because in every possible outcome because it is Harold in the picture ... it will mean pain, suffering and untold misery that poor Harold will hide behind a dignified smile as his world burns around him.
He doesn't have to hide pain if there is no pain.
It’s how “Hide the pain Harold” becomes “Having awesome times Harold”.
Maybe there is a little burn. Soon he'll be installing arch, then nixos, then Linux from scratch. He's having fun distro jumping. He is.
That's why second panel is different than usual
He doesn't know the Realtek wifi driver doesn't work an has a Nvidia card
Yes I love experiencing screen tearing in 2025
Is this a Mint problem, or tied to certain hardware? I never had screen tearing for years now. Both adaptive sync in games as well as adaptive sync or vsync on desktop just worked out of the box for me.
X11 has issues with screen tearing sometimes, it definitely depends on your hardware though. Watching shows from my shitty laptop on my 10 yr old TV was horrible.
Upgrading to wayland fixed it.
I've installed it on my laptop a few weeks ago and most of the things worked indeed out of the box!
The only things not working are its fingerprint reader and the higher refresh rates of its display. I haven't been able to solve either problem yet. :(
The refresh rate problem is uncommon… do you use the "Edge" version of Mint or the normal one?
Unfortunately drivers for fingerprint readers (or the lack thereof) are often an issue.
There doesn't seem to be any Edge version for 22.x, so I guess I'm using the normal one.
The thing with my refresh rate is that the highest one available to me is just 60 Hz. I'm using a Huawei Matebook X Pro (2018) and if I'm not mistaken, its display should have 90 Hz at a resolution of 3.000x2.000 (yep, it's display is somewhat uncommon and has a 3:2 format). I've noticed because since the switch, the screen looked very choppy to me.
Stop hiding your pain, Harold…
NICE
