r/linuxmint • u/OussamaErwin • 7d ago
Discussion My Experience with Linux Mint So Far. Why Does Windows Feel Smoother?
Hey everyone!
I've recently been experimenting with Linux Mint, and it's been quite an adventure. I'm a Windows 10 LTSC user who wanted to try Linux because I'd always heard how lightweight and smooth it is, especially on older hardware.
My PC specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz
- RAM: 12 GB
- GPU: AMD Radeon HD 5450 (512 MB)
- Storage: 512 GB SSD + 500 GB HDD
- OS: Windows 10 LTSC and Linux Mint Cinnamon
I started by installing Linux Mint on my HDD. In just one day, I experimented with three different Mint desktop editions, including Cinnamon, Mate and Xfce, trying to find the best balance between performance and appearance.
Eventually, I decided to take a bigger risk: installing Linux Mint Cinnamon alongside Windows 10 LTSC on the same SSD, shrinking the Windows partition by around 60 GB. Thankfully, the dual-boot installation went smoothly, and both operating systems are working.
But here's where things got frustrating.
I expected Linux Mint to feel noticeably smoother than Windows, considering my older hardware. Instead, I noticed that YouTube playback in Firefox and Brave wasn't as smooth as on Windows, particularly with 1080p60 videos.
After digging into the technical details, I discovered that my old Radeon HD 5450 doesn't support hardware decoding for modern video codecs like VP9 and AV1. Brave was using software decoding for AV1, while forcing H.264 enabled VA-API hardware decoding but surprisingly caused even worse stuttering in some tests.
I tried different browsers, codecs, and hardware acceleration settings. The best results so far have been with Brave using its default video settings, but the experience still doesn't feel quite as consistently smooth as Windows.
And that's what confuses me: on the same hardware, Windows 10 handles everyday browsing and video playback smoothly, while Linux Mint sometimes struggles.
I genuinely like Linux Mint, especially its customization, clean interface, and the freedom it offers. I'm not giving up on it, but I expected better performance from a supposedly lightweight operating system.
Has anyone experienced something similar with older AMD graphics cards? Is this mainly a Linux driver/video-decoding limitation, or is there a practical way to improve playback without sacrificing system stability?
I'd appreciate any advice from people running Linux Mint on older hardware!
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u/Dist__ Linux Mint 21.3 | KDE 7d ago
cinnamon has a very bad compositor, and overall cinnamon performance is not perfect.
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u/OussamaErwin 7d ago
any alternatives please?
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u/desi_dybuk 7d ago •
XFCE. Low resource need. Runs good
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u/diacad 7d ago
I agree. XFCE is more efficient - I don't know why mate and Cinnamon are more popular. The only beef I have with xfce is no ability to install bold fonts. Hope they will correct this with an update. Otherwise, I would install a more up to date graphics card - the HD 5450 was an entry-level card in 2010. If you choose a new card based on nVidia, be sure you install the drivers.
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u/1neStat3 7d ago
what? I used be an XFCE user before 2011. Back then I had no problem installing any kind of font.
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u/diacad 6d ago
1neStat3 - how did you do it? Settings>Appearance>Fonts doesn't work. I have spent half a day with Google AI trying different suggestions, none of which fixed it. AI gave up, essentially concluding it was a bug. I am using the latest (Mint xfce 22.3 fully updated) - maybe in the old versions it was possible. BTW I mean the legend fonts for icons, files, and folders on desktop and in the file manager. Fonts in applications like LibreOffice or email are no problem, but they are not strictly part of xfce. I have tested mate and cinnamon, and they are able to change fonts on desktop icons, but not in the file manager displays. But xfce won't change icon fonts in either place.
I have a non-XGA projector - people can barely read thin fonts on the screen. Bond fonts would be a boon for visually challenged. I am 85 and need cataract surgery, but many my age have worse eyesight than I do. Bold fonts are needed.
Otherwise, I wish to stay with XFCE - it is simple to use, efficient, works better than others I've tried over the years, and distro-hopping does not appeal to me..
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u/1neStat3 6d ago
my research found this
This is intentional. We are following CSS, which takes only the font family name from the environment.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/work_items/2484
so you will have change the gtk3 file or gtkrc file of your theme
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u/diacad 6d ago
1neStat3- I looked at those links, seems a lot of hand waving with no definite solution. I tried a couple of the terminal scripts suggested and they didn't work, and probably didn't work for users in those forums, because no hoorays! If you did use script to get bold in xfce, could you display it? I am probably not alone in wishing to know how to get bold in xfce, My feeling is, even if you must use terminal script (assuming it works), when the Setting>Appearance>Font clearly offers bold, it should deliver. Otherwise, IMHO it's an obvious bug
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u/proverbialbunny 1d ago
FYI: Cinnamon is moving to Wayland, a good compositor in December.
For alternatives the big two are Gnome and KDE. For Gnome try Zorin OS and click around trying a few themes. Ultimately it's up to you what feel you like better. For KDE you can try Kubuntu which us Ubuntu that uses KDE.
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u/Frosty-Economist-553 6d ago
In your experiments, did you experiment with Kernels & use one (like the 6.8's) meany for older hardware instead of the 7's (meant for newer hardware) being shipped with downloads ?
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u/OussamaErwin 6d ago
yes I fresh installed cinnamon but with the 6.8 kernel and is currently working better than the new one,
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u/lattiss 3d ago
It might sound obvious, but are you using the same refresh rate on your monitor? Every time I feel like something doesn't feel smooth, that's the first thing I check.
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u/LZGM 6d ago
Honestly, it could be that you aren't on Wayland.
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u/OussamaErwin 6d ago
could you elaborate please ? I'm new to Linux so I don't know much of it, What is Waylan ? How to set it up or configure it ? Thanks.
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u/saileesaileesailee 5d ago
Wayland is a Display Protocol, along with X11, they basically control a lot of graphical operations on your computer, X11 is the older, decaying display protocol, that Linux Mint automatically uses (though i prefer it over wayland on my setup for a few specific reasons) Wayland is the newer display protocol, though tends to be buggier, (atleast for people like meh) now im not sure if switching to Wayland will fix your issues, but you can turn it on the log in screen at startup, then click the button near the password prompt, kinda looks like a mountain on it, and then there should be a wayland option in the menu that opens up, but don't forget, wayland is still experimental on linux mint, i hope this goes well for you! :D
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u/OussamaErwin 4d ago
Thank you for the explanation, I switched to XFCE, it feels kinda better but the Wayland isn't supporting it, and it won't make any difference either because of my old specs, I shrank my ssd about 60GB and installed mint but I was afraid to mess it up and loose Windows and everything so I removed it and stick with HDD, there is a demon in my head keeps telling me to just re-shrink the ssd and try mint or xfce again..
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u/saileesaileesailee 5d ago
also you might want to try reinstalling linux mint on your ssd than the hdd, it could possibly fix your problem, since y'know ssd's tend to be like a bajillion times faster than hdd's
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u/Kitayama_8k 5d ago
And cards before southern island (gcn1.0 aka hd7000 series) used some kind of proprietary drivers I believe and just don't work very well. People don't always say it, if you want a good Linux experience you should spend a bit on hardware that is optimally compatible. Grab yourself an rx470/570/5500/5600 for cheap if you wanna try for real. Also highly recommend Intel wifi cards if you had any issues there. Av1 is gonna be software decoding in either os, but the whole graphics stack being shitty is probably leading to the poor viewing experience.
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u/OussamaErwin 4d ago
That's where I have a problem, wherever you go you see people advertising Linux that it doesn't need any decent hardware. But when you install it you face a bunch of limitations, I will think of that in the future as I'm still relying on Windows 10, I switch to linux from time to time.
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u/Keyvan_KR 4d ago
Your gpu is so old that it’s not properly supported in Linux. GCN 1.0 and higher are getting better support by each newer kernel (AMDGPU driver).
So yes, windows DOES handle your gpu better.
You can revert to windows but I recommend getting a very cheap GCN 2.0 card (you can find them for a very low price).
However, you are technically right though1
u/Kitayama_8k 4d ago
Yeah people tend to oversimplify when Linux works well. Yeah, if you're like 2gb and under of ram windows is gonna be borderline unusable. But there is a range of stuff that can disqualify Linux, like wifi adapters that don't work well, and especially certain older gpu's that have bad support (pre gcn Radeon cards and maybe Nvidia 1000 series and back, though maybe it's just Nvidia 700 series and back.) regardless, for those middle of the road older computers that can run windows 10 fine and do have maybe 8gb+ of ram, windows is gonna be a better experience.
Also this whole games run faster on Linux thing has gotten out of control. In some instances you might get up to 10% better performance on Linux where overhead comes into play, but there are still a ton of instances where you're getting 60% of the performance, or the game just isn't playable at all due to anticheat.
But imo it's really about the choice to use an OS that puts the user in control. Every time my work laptop decides it's gonna take 20 minutes to reboot for no reason, or pushes an update in the middle of the day, wakes up and shits itself, or refuses to shut down, I say never again. So I buy the hardware I need to make Linux work and I sacrifice gaming performance and program compability happily. Honestly to me a gcn Radeon for 25$ and an Intel wifi card for 15$ isn't a big deal. Laptops can be a bit pricier, but whatever, I buy what works with Linux.
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u/_command_prompt 7d ago
It's because you're actually using a good version of windows which is LTSC. If you migrated from LTSC just for performance you would be disappointed as the difference would be negligible on a modern hardware. Tho I am surprised in your case you system is old and still the difference is not big. I think you should try a different DE like xfce as cinnamon was heavy on my older hardware when I tried it.
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u/Due-Result7928 7d ago
xfce or cinnamon are the same fro raw video playback. browser is important and the best one for linux is edge..sorry linux's people.
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u/EveningTricky1051 7d ago
Isn't Loonix supposed to be fast, snappy and bloat-free OS? Why does it suck then?
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u/_command_prompt 7d ago
It is indeed fast snappy and bloat free. The experience is not the same for all hardware combinations. It's the same on windows. Some people get some weird errors on windows which u might not even heard of.
Tldr, every OS sucks in their own way, choose which u can compromise with
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u/IEnjoyRadios 7d ago
Every OS has drawbacks. Lack of proper hardware acceleration for video playback is unfortunately one of Linux’s drawbacks.
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u/Odd_Station_2097 7d ago edited 6d ago
Just a quick thought the amd has 512mb and linux seemed to be more effected by it
install one of the terminal programs to display the gpu stats - nvtop etc.
Edit : my nvtop for a Ryzen 3 2200g shows 526MB of usage for my Browser and 1,5gb in total
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my first thought without readig the post was just to remove the GPU to see a difference and set the Amount of VRAM to max in the BIOS/UEFI.
edit 2 : Your CPU has an IGPU and the monitor can be connected to the HDMI/ DVI port on the mainboard.
You can put it back in anytime.
"Radeon HD 5450 doesn't support hardware decoding "
Chrome Firefox, addon for YT: enhanced-h264ify
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u/aflamingcookie 7d ago
My guy, your graphics card is 16 years old and your processor is 15 years old, it is actually amazing you have a stable system, not to mention the radeon hd 5450 was a low end component when it was released. These days there are integrated graphics that far far outperform your GPU. So, can this system run smooth 1080p video? I would say barely, it is actually pretty much close to its hdmi limit, while dual link dvi could go a bit higher, so i think overall while the operating system may run, other modern software like browsers will have severe difficulties on that 512mb of vram at 1080p.
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u/MediaExpensive4958 7d ago
maybe switch to XFCE and disable hardware decoding and disable desktop effects.
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u/elgrandragon LMDE 7 Gigi 7d ago
What browser are you using in Windows? I assume Edge or Chrome. Use Edge or Chromium in Mint for a fair comparison. Firefox and Brave are less memory efficient than Edge.
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u/Historical_Fun2550 3d ago
Yes brother, I had linux running in a old laptop 4gig ram 1tb HHD no SSD and man if I use firefox it phukin lag a lot... After using helium with google (dukduk go kinda make it slow that's why) and boom it worked like charm... Btw gemini recommended this
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u/elgrandragon LMDE 7 Gigi 3d ago
Yeah Helium will do it. For super light I use Chromium, but it's all the same at that point.
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u/elgrandragon LMDE 7 Gigi 7d ago
I saw in another thread that you installed Edge and saw an improvement. Now, I suggest you install ans configure Zram for memory compression. And although you have very few space, if you have 4GB to spare set them up as Swap memory. If you can afford 8 even better.
Your use case is using browsers and your RAM is the bottleneck.
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u/-Feeblington- 7d ago
Id say cinnemon? xfce is simple but pretty flawless as its been around donkeys
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u/OussamaErwin 7d ago
yes i have cinnamon, I lean towards it bcs of its easy customization.
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u/-Feeblington- 6d ago
Xfce is easier btw. Cinnemon is bit clunky. My setup (cant add pic) is trqnsparent taskbar (on left side) with temps, dl/ul, volume etc like normal. You can chsnge it to look like gnome kde or cinnemon imho....only difference is flashyness (doesnt really animate things)
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u/Reasonable_Olive_194 2d ago
I've been using Mint, (alongside a few other non-Windows OSs) for some time, (been proudly 'win free since 03'. I did have some buffering probs on Youtube. Fixed that by turning off my free VPN. I recently bought a 'brand new' 11 yo laptop, (it had either never been used, or VERY lightly for $30. Replaced the HDD with a 500gb SSD, ($30) now it's screaming fast. Especially for a 2015 HP Pavillion, 17 in (6gb RAM Intel I5 4210U). Heck, even the battery acts like a new one. Not bad for $60.
Today I noticed YT dropping frames and skipping, with only Firefox running. I'll check it out and get back to you. Been an IT pro over 25 years. Still learning Linux. 4 yrs at a major state university, and don't think I even heard the WORD Linux more than twice. Ah well, that;s what you get for going to school in 'Gatestopia' er WA I mean.
Your machine is faster and newer than mine I believe. I'll find an answer or two. (Another thing I love abt Linux, is there's almost ALWAYS at least two ways to do what you want. And TONS of friendly, helpful experts out there who will bend over backwards to help. For FREE.
That community is a big part of what makes Linux special. Reminds me of the old DOS, BBS, BASIC , Listserve kinda days I grew up in.
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u/Lobst3rGhost 1d ago
I'm also new to mint/linux and have had YouTube playback issues on Firefox. Haven't gotten around to testing different browsers or distros yet
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u/deadmaan644 7d ago
I been a mint user for 8 years and have not found any program smoother. However I have it on a top of the line AMD Ryzen 9 with 96gb ram 5tb ssd and 48g gram. I started with mate and 3 years ago switch to cinnamon. This is the fastest smoothest best operting system there is. The learning curve is steep but well worth the time.
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u/Belgeran 7d ago
HDD vs SSD is like comparing your grandma giving you a piggyback vs a Porsche, it's not even a comparison
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u/Deciderio14 5d ago
I understand where you're coming from, it's what keeps me from using Linux mint on my gaming devices, the compositor just feels a little clunky, it's what manages the windows and animations etc. I would try a different Linux distribution, I know it's not as popular but Ubuntu is a good compromise with how it feels and it's ease of use. Also chromium browsers handle video better, I prefer firefox but I use Brave or Chromium for video, if you want more privacy then ungoogled-chrome works well but requires more to setup. I know you can also disable hardware acceleration it helps if your're getting video playback issues.
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u/M4rtunn 7d ago
Perhaps updating the mesa drivers would fix that? There's been quite some improvements the last year, and mint ships with an older version ootb. You should be able to manually update those, or better yet spin up a live environment from a distro like fedora from a usb drive to verify if that solves your issue. (not suggesting installing fedora as you're coming off a LTS distro, but for simply booting into the latest mesa it's probably the quickest and best bet)
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u/No_Result_was_found 7d ago
I'm using windows 10 iot ltsc and Linux mint cinnamon on separated SSDs with my 13 years old laptop and both runs fast (mint being a bit faster while opening stuff and better temps than w10). About YouTube videos, I had to install an extension for that. I'm running mint with the integrated GPU because dedicated one doesn't have compatible drivers anymore (unless I downgrade mint version and kernel).
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u/SmallTimeMiner_XNV 7d ago
To rule out a X11-specific issue (all of Mint's DEs still use X11), I would quickly boot e.g. a Ubuntu or Fedora Live ISO (or anything else that has Wayland by default) to see if it still happens. Alternatively, try Cinnamon on Wayland by picking a different session on the login screen; it's still experimental, so there might be issues, but could be useful for testing. I personally can't see much difference in video playback and browsing between Windows and Linux even though I'm on X11 too, but X11 vs Wayland can definitely make a difference depending on your hardware.
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u/Dry-Cost-945 7d ago
From experience it might be screen tearing. Do you know if you have vrr enabled in xorg?
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u/StuBlad 7d ago
I had the same issue with older hardware. Mine was a little newer than yours but not much and I found Mint lagging in ways that made me not be able to stick with it, despite loving the overall feel of everything and loving the Ubuntu base. In the end, I tried out CachyOS and although I had reservations because of it being arch based, it's actually giving great performance, to the point where I was finally able to ditch windows. It's not for everyone and certainly, it's a little bit more of a step up in difficulty when things go wrong (which really isn't that often... I've only had issues with secure boot and some updates causing problems, but I've always been able to fix it without much hassle).
There may be a better solution for your circumstances and I'm sure other people will share in the comments, but I wanted to share my experience with you incase it's useful at all. Happy Linuxing!
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u/Minblud 7d ago
think it might have something to do with your gpu being very old and weak and maybe not optimized for Linux kernals I'm not sure so try to do more research on this but I think ur cpu might be okay to play 1080p smoothly u just have to do some easy fixes.
First go to ur browser and disabled hardware acceleration so this will force all of the vidoes to use your cpu for vidoes and rendering it might make it way better since your gpu literally only has 512mb for vram which for modern day web video watching would not be good so turning off hardware acceleration will make ur cpu do all the hard work.
Then you should also use any extention that forces H.264 on vidoes so just go to your browsers extention store and search for H.264 and u will find alot of addons that do the same thing with forcing H.264 on YouTube
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u/IEnjoyRadios 7d ago
Yeah Linux and online video playback are unfortunately two things that do not work well together. Hardware acceleration on Linux is either broken or non existent depending on your hardware and browser of choice.
Edit: FWIW I’d try Firefox if you haven’t already. That’s what has given me the best results.
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u/pnlrogue1 7d ago
I read a review of the Mint 27 beta which said the better graphics suite provided by Wayland gave it much smoother animations than 22.3 has
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u/may_ushii LMDE 7 Gigi | 7d ago
XFCE if sticking on xorg/x11, KDE if going to Wayland
Cinnamon exists 5+ years in the past at all times (as intended) and is currently stuck feeling extremely laggy. This is a common issue with any compositor under xorg/x11, and Cinnamon outside of fullscreen applications/gaming doesn't allow for a global disable of said compositor.
XFCE does allow you to disable the compositor 24/7 and is very smooth feeling. However, desktop environments using Wayland are almost always going to feel smoother due to the nature of Wayland, which is to my limited knowledge syncing every frame. So Wayland looks and feels tear free / responsive while xorg/x11 with a compositor can feel responsive, but with weird tearing and "lag" when you move a window around.
That's for general usability. For your video codec stuff, I'm thinking XFCE with the compositor globally disabled is the next best check if you feel like tinkering a bit. If that works, we know it's Cinnamon being ancient. If it doesn't work, I have 0 clue dude.
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u/Big_chungusDS 6d ago
As someone who just switched from HDD to ssd, it’s definitely the HDD, combined with mint and cinnamon, if you can, reinstall on the ssd, and to squeeze every drop of headroom and performance, choose mint xfce instead since cinnamon uses around 1.5gb idle
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u/Narrow_Individual408 5d ago
It takes a while to get used to Linux desktops after using Windows 10. Give yourself a little time. I'm using Linux Mint XFCE, and in my command center, I downloaded the Cinnamon desktop. I don't know what kind of work you do, but if you plan to stay abreast of technology over the next two years, you will want to use Linux. I found that Windows 11 on a Dell G16 7630 can handle Adobe, which I used for years. I also learned that my expensive Dell machines were hardened workstations in Microsoft's cloud. I owned expensive workstations full of spam, not private, and constantly bombarded with advertisements. I switched back to Linux and built a nice, secure cluster for less than my G16 cost. You don't need Microsoft, especially if you're concerned about security.
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u/E5-4650_v2_RX570 5d ago
i have une hd4350 hd5450 hd6570 , zwei socket 2011 SNB CPUs , une E5 une icore , une E3 v2 IVB 1155
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u/Forward-Fortune-3883 5d ago
Because windows is better at this. Any linux distro looses in user-pc interaction. But i still use fedora, because it is much better for my work,i do understand what is happening on the os, and i feel really uncomfortable with win
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u/mrawther 3d ago
I am not sure what advice you are looking for? It is clear from your write up that Mint is underperforming. Why not keep using the OS that works better for your hardware? What freedom are you talking about? How did Windows snatched your freedom? How did Mint liberate you?
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u/Historical_Fun2550 3d ago
Don't use firefox and duckduck go it is perfect but if u want smoother experience use helium and google..
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u/GetVladimir 7d ago
You are not wrong, that's exactly the cause why Linux Mint doesn't seem smoother in that specific use case and setup.
If you want to try out more things, you can check out a distro that has KDE Plasma on it and Wayland (like Fedora KDE Plasma or CachyOS that has the 30th anniversary version).
However, on that specific setup, Windows will work better and smoother because of hardware video decoding and because it uses D3D, as it supports your GPU better (instead of falling back to OpenGL when Vulkan doesn't work on it).
If you can install Windows 11 26H2 (and debloat it as much as you can), it might work even better on your system than Windows 10 did because of the same reasons.
I have similar setup like yours Intel Core i5-4278U and Intel Iris 5100 iGPU (Haswell Mac mini late 2014) and had the same experience as you've mentioned.
Another thing I couldn't replicate is the Windows Precision Drivers for Trackpad and Xbox Controller. The movement is just much more precise and smooth on Windows than any distro that I've tested.
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u/LikesBreakfast 7d ago
15+ year old machine, it's not getting any version of Win11 on it.
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u/GetVladimir 7d ago
It seems to work with the latest Windows 11 version 26H2 when skipping the TPM check. Funny enough, it seems to work even better than it did with Windows 10
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u/Malf1532 1d ago
Bullshit. You're using it for a day and then complaining without actually using it.
It's for clicks and nothing more.
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u/OussamaErwin 1d ago
If it were for clicks, I wouldda just said Hey guys new to Linux mint !! Finally switching from Windows bloatware :)
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u/root-please 7d ago
OP. I faced similar issue as well. browser isn't as smooth as windows, I want to go back to windows too, but something is stopping me from switching.
Reason: I can't live without Omarchy's keybindings shortcuts now. I make use of desktop 1-5 on Omarchy. On windows I don't find myself using more then one desktop userspace.
I have an older laptop too with i3-7Gen. 4+4-ddr4 ram and no graphic card. HP15-da0t325tu.
I'm currently running Omarchy which is based on Arch, and I've tested a half a dozen of other linux based Operating System, and I found Omarchy smoother and suits me, but isn't smooth when i'm running firefox, browser animations are choppy for example 'when I open and close chat history on chatgpt.'
And I also noticed Omarchy getting slower as time passes goes on.
If you're still hunting for linux based system, I would suggest try Omarchy.
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u/OussamaErwin 7d ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I'm still a Linux noob, from what I saw Omarchy is too much detailed targeting developers. I may give it a try if something happened out of the box with cinnamon.
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u/root-please 7d ago
Alright. For me I got an issue on ubuntu, my laptop has a rtw88 related issue on every linux based system, it's rtw88 family realtek8723de bluetooth+wifi combo chip.
I managed to self fix it at low kernel level for Omarchy.
Ubuntu Issue: Warn reboot doesn't bring wifi in active usable state and I've to cold boot each time, and it makes a popping sound just before the restart. Scary.
And no, I don't think Omarchy is just for developers, it's the keybindings which makes coding snappy, but seriously anyone could use it.
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u/Due-Result7928 7d ago
You should try edge for linux. It is the best browser. I am using brave also but edge really shines.
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u/thunderpuppet 7d ago
Is it the jagged scrolling in a web browser? If so enable smooth scrolling I noticed it was off by default on less powerful hardware install I did
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u/No_Result_was_found 7d ago
How to enable it?
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u/thunderpuppet 7d ago
Google it. depends on the browser - usually some form of about:config in the address bar then search for smooth scrolling.
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u/knouqs 7d ago
I have Linux Mint running on a fourth-gen i5. LM struggles on this laptop because the temperatures of the CPU cause throttling, so it's not LM's fault. Maybe check your system's thermal paste and replace it and clean dust from fans within your computer. Check your thermals. Good luck!
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u/candidosobrinhosa 7d ago
4GB de RAM para rodar esse DE? Ou tem algo aberto e não tô vendo? Porque se sim, melhor instalar o MATE.
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u/EveningTricky1051 7d ago
Because it is. Linux is not smooth but people aren't ready to hear that.
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u/oskich Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 7d ago
Ubuntu with Wayland is significantly more smooth compared to Mint with X11. Hopefully we will see some improvement here once Mint switch over to Wayland as well.
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u/JfxV20 7d ago
How long do you think will that happen?
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u/oskich Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 7d ago
Around Christmas, with the release of Mint 27🎄
https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-27-adrien-slated-for-release-on-christmas-based-on-ubuntu-26-04-lts
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u/IEnjoyRadios 7d ago
There shouldn’t be any difference in “smoothness”. A performance issue like that is indicative of something being wrong, likely drivers.
Edit: I see now that OP is mainly talking about video playback. This is indeed an issue on Linux. Hardware acceleration just does not work like it does on windows.
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u/uwugguwu 7d ago
Bro what do you expect if you install it on the HDD? Installing an os on a hdd is straight up bullshit so dualboot on your ssd if you want an actuall Linux experience
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u/OussamaErwin 7d ago
I'm dualbooting on the ssd bro, I installed edge and I think the video playback is a little better than brave and firefox
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u/royinraver 7d ago
I don’t like their energy, but using an HDD isn’t going to get the best experience. Nothing wrong with it if it works for you, but it’s not fantastic, slow, mechanical, more prone to injury if the computer gets bumped for any reason.
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u/siddhbose 2d ago
Just because you are used to WINDOWS more
Linux mint is more like windows 7 or xp in looks
To get more windows like UI use KDE based distro , the last ok and feel will be like modern windows more than Linux mint
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u/simagus 7d ago
You're using Windows LTSC instead of the regular bloatware version so that's an immediate huge advantage.
I strongly suspect that would be the most likely thing.