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Curious. Do you have a "run on discrete GPU" option when you right click an app icon?
Iirc that feature is exposed on GNOME. Maybe you couldn't steam on discrete GPU option as a troubleshooting step?
That said I use both AMD cpu and GPU and it correctly defaults to the discrete GPU so this may not be the case
Even the IGPU should get better performance than that. I played Kerbal Space Program on a 2011 MacBook Air and got at least 30 fps.
I don't appear to have this.
There's a program called amdgou_top you can use to see the breakdown of components on the GPU(s) and their utilization, as well as what apps are running on the GPU
which distro is it? there are many that were not made with gaming in mind
This is Pop_Os, which is System76's 'ubuntu like' distro that comes shipped with vendor maintained drivers. It comes preinstalled with steam and is intended to be able to use it right out of the box. I've opened a ticket with them to discuss it further
don't use it. It is totally left without support nowadays. They are developing COSMIC, a new Wayland desktop enviroment and Pop OS is abandoned. System 76 pcs support other distros too. You need something based on Fedora Atomic or Arch
My goal for this system was to eject windows from my life prior to the launch of Windows recall. That and host a bunch of docker containers in an environment more reliable than windows. I got impatient waiting for cosmic to reach full support, but still wanted to go with the distro system76 ships as "theirs" as opposed to putting Ubuntu on their hardware. I haven't checked if cosmic is officially out yet but will likely switch over when it is. I'm a novice with Linux btw. I can use it to host and run my software but wanted a prepackaged solution for my devbox so that I have a much lower chance of breaking it. Also things like my Wacom tablet just worked out of the box, which is all big plus.