Been using Series Guide for years. Love it.

? No drama intended, can you elaborate? I’m completely out of the loop.

As a young tech trying to get started, Knoppix live CD enabled me to clean viruses and recover data for clients.

After years of using it as a specific tool, I decided to daily drive it when an older machine stopped accepting Windows Updates.

I still run Windows on my big rig, but Debian on everything Else.

With your information, and realizing I still have made virtually no progress…

Ugh. This is ridiculous. I was aware Apple did shiesty stuff, but never heard of anyone else.

The difference is staggering, and I have to believe something similar has happened.

This laptop was previously my test bed for Linux itself. Old Faithful, if you know what I mean. Got me confident enough to actually use Linux. Compile stuff. Tinker. 🥰

Got me to acquire another, newer laptop for Linux. Confidence, even if only a drop.

Thank you for replying and sharing. I can’t think of anything else being the issue.

I dunno…

But I switched to proton 6.x and dx10 and now it’s running, even if it crashes trying to change the settings.

Now I’ve got to figure out installing mods for single player… Using flatpak…

Just can’t change any of the graphic settings without it crashing.

Running at 1280x720 at 60fps

All lowest settings though. Good enough.

HP Envy 17

I switched to proton 6.x and dx10 and now it’s running 😎

I keep reading that anything below the 2000 series has severe Vulkan limitations… I’m wondering if Windows would perform better? Playable?

I’ve got no clue about video cards, let alone on Linux. I just know I prefer my Debian devices, and this is my first foray into Nvidia and Linux.

Edit: and I assume an MX250 is a 2000 series. Which makes the cut for Vulkan support fwir

It identifies and loads up the interface.

One process, Xorg @ 4MiB

I’ve got the right click to use card menu, and use that to force flatpak Steam to use it. Then I confirm in game it is selected.

It feels like a huge step down from Intel gfx on an older laptop running Windows…

SuperDisk™? 😏

Snaps definitely are slower to open. One they get going, they are fine.

But a little slow to load…

Wayland is default on Gnome.

Corroded… that’s something I hadn’t considered…

This is my “outside” laptop… been using it in places I wouldn’t want to risk a more expensive machine… 🤔 think I’ll disassemble it and check for corrosion…

Could be something in the process of breaking… could explain the erratic behaviors, I guess?

I haven’t tried any other distro yet. I’ve been with Debian my whole Linux life. But I might try XFCE again… that was my preferred desktop for years, only the new update triggered me to try Gnome properly.

And… I totally broke my touchpad trying to disable the touch screen.

Couldn’t figure it out, so another reinstall! I’ve done 5 now, and to hell with Wayland. All this time wasted trying to do something that apparently just ain’t supported yet.

I had it working (well, disabled) on Wayland on my earlier frankenbian… ugh.

I’ve done that again, and now have a working Gnome install…

But I cannot get the touch screen disabled no matter what I try on it.

udevadm doesn’t do it x11conf edit doesn’t do it

Losing my mind with this 🤦‍♂️

Machine still complains ath10k is missing on bootup, too. I don’t see how it isn’t on this media when it was on the machine after the initial update to bookworm (many installs ago now, since I’ve been trying to get this installed the last 2 days)

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I found a web site, biosbug.com, and was able to generate an unlock code.

Yeah, really looks like I ought to do a clean install I think.

The system takes forever to boot, but it’s pretty responsive after…

I appreciate the help and info greatly. I’ll eventually get it right! 🤦‍♂️

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I’ve got an even older machine, Intel Atom, 2Gigs RAM, and I’m running 64bit XFCE4 there quite decently, but thank you for the info. How much longer do you think 32bit has? I thought web browsers already switched to only 64bit?

ZRam is good stuff

I’ve clearly broken something then, because after removing my media files… the install is over 200gigs.

I’m brand new to Gnome; I thought you could freely add Desktop Environments without conflict? I’ve since removed XFCE and am all in on Wayland… I think? Is Wayland the same as XWayland? 🤦‍♂️

If I install Gnome cleanly, will it still install and use Wayland?

And I discovered my BIOS is password protected 🫣 and I can’t remember it 😢