I had issues with mints install a while back. Turns out that it was my flash drive failing during the install. I used a newer one with bigger capacity and it worked fine. Not sure if tried a different USB but it’s worth a shot.

EDIT: based on your comments you probably have a different issue. But this might help someone else.

That’s very helpful, thanks!

I have an RTX 4070 ti super and it works great. But I use proprietary drivers.

What I don’t understand is how I could be throttling on temps. I’ve been watching them and the temps don’t go above 60c for either GPU or CPU. And the other thing is, it will say I’m throttling as soon as the game loads when the temps are in the 50s. I have also been using a different program to track temps and the most I’ve seen CPU temps is 79c from loading shaders.

Edit: looking at the config file for mango hud, it says : display GPU throttling status based on power, current, temp or “other”. It seems to me that, this popup appears if you have any 1 of those conditions.

Nvtop showed everything normal. The GPU power was below the TDP.

I don’t think so. I booted up a 2d side scroller game with the GPU usage at 40% and CPU at 9% and it still says I’m throttling just sitting at the main menu. I did put GPU power in mangohud but it always shows 0 watts.

I’m not sure. This is my first time using amd. I’m using linux mint on kernel 6.8.0-52. I typed in that command and nothing happened.

I’ll just do a clean install and re do it lol.

Thanks for the info. I’ll make sure to double check all that before. I have another question. If I edited fstab to add mounting hard drives on boot. Will I have to redo that when I hook my drive up to a new mobo? Or will the drive UUIDs and mount paths be the same?

This worked. My first install of mangohud was through the git hub instructions. But when I installed it through my package manager, it works in steam now. Thanks

So then how would I use it in lutris and steam?

I’m on Linux mint 22 and my audio outputs don’t change automatically. When I plug in USB headphones, audio won’t output to them unless I manually change it in settings.

Also, why can’t I interact with the panel applets (on the right side) while I’m in game? For example: I’m playing a game, I plug in my headphones, I have to manually change the audio output so I hit the “windows” key to bring up the panel, but I can’t interact with any of the applets on the right side of the panel (I can’t select the audio icon and change settings from there). I have to search audio settings in the panel then alt tab to it. It’s really cumbersome

Thanks for your help with my problem. I ultimately decided to retry my method due to a video I found detailing the method and it worked. I updated my OP to include more details if you wanna read what I did. But I did successfully dual boot onto 2 separate drives.

That’s good to know. I would prefer using mint because I’ve been using it in my laptop for a while now and I’m comfortable with it. I really appreciate your help and time answering my questions. I will try dual booting again this weekend.

That’s very generous. I was planning on using windows 10 and Linux mint. But I was doing some research and it seems like bazzite is more focused towards gaming and I wasn’t sure if I should use that instead of mint.

Thanks for the response. That is really helpful. I am going to try again and hopefully it will work better this time.

Dang, I was unsure if Linux would mess up my windows drive, that’s why I took it out. But I guess I was wrong. So, if I’m installing Linux on a separate drive, during installation do I need to select (install along side windows) or is that only if it’s on the same drive as windows?

All the tutorials say to remove every drive but the one you are installing on, it’s better to be safe, or so I thought…

And I didn’t know about OS prober. I figured that if the OS’s are on seperate drives I could just enter bios each time and select the drive I want to boot to.

I recently tried out my desktop PC for gaming with mint. I removed my windows drive from the PC, installed mint on a seperate drive, tried out several games, shut PC down, put windows drive back in PC, windows won’t boot… Had to nuke both drives and reinstall windows…

It’s a little different tho if you already purchased said games that don’t run well or run at all on Linux… Especially, if you have some games that you and your friends play together. “Oh sorry guys I can’t play these games with you anymore, I’m on Linux now…”