you throw the holy hand grenade on it, obviously...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM5bfLf3RPg

you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

Ahhh that brings me back to 2005 and my first time installing gentoo

wait you did? aww writing bootdisks was my favorite part of the 286 era.

people would tell you to RTFM if your question was answered anywhere in the documentation

Modern day internet techies will snear at you for using AI assist tools when setting up an environment. But by god, do these agents not save me endless hours of trying to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls of system configuration.

RTFM only works when the documentation is high quality and easy to follow. Better yet, if you know the manual so well, just link me to the damned chapter I'm supposed to focus in on. I'm trying to set up an *arr stack, not become a sysadmin team lead at a Fortune 500 company.

Never mind DMAs and IRQs, you had to manually write config files specifying the geometry and refresh rate of your monitor.

In fairness, a lot of those config files were relatively easy to write. I'll take that over hunting through forty different nearly-identical screens in a custom configured BIOS.

Later you had to uninstall pulse audio so sound worked. And recompile WIFI drivers with every Kernel update. Today though I can very much relate I don't want my OS to need more attention than maybe rebooting for updates once a month. That's what made macOS successful. Linux Desktop has become usable in that regard, now even vsync sometimes works.

Is this all proton applications or have you only been playing one or a few games lately?

What WM/DE are you using?

(i have no idea if I can help you but this is probably a helpful question for someone who can)

Long shot, but Steam games, including Proton games, will typically have the Steam overlay up. I don't know how they implement the overlay, but if it's via some kind of floating transparent window, maybe it could interact oddly with focus in Kwin. Maybe try toggling the Steam overlay off, see if that does it?

Because otherwise you don't have the "true linux experience", whatever that means.

I work in IT support, and you can't imagine how completely computer inept the average user is. Like, they start crying when a button has moved 2cm to the side.

These will never be able to use a command line, let alone install their own operating system.

Yet some of these Linux evangelicals think everyone was born with a UTP cable up their arse. So they recommend what they see as "easy", but don't understand that it only looks easy to them because of the decades of experience they already had.

As long as the Linux community can not decide what distro is the best for newbies, it will never be the year of the linux.

I don't think it's just you. That seems like how most people are online these days. Aggressive gatekeeping vs. first timers asking "did I do basic thing right? :3" for pretend internet points.

Definitely not a universal experience. I hope you have a better one here!

Are you just new to lemmy or Linux or something else?

Another nice thing about Unbuntu was that searching for "Ubuntu your-problem-here" usually gave good results. Sometimes it could be a 10 year old forum post that was still relevant.

Searching for "Linux Mint your-problem-here" is more likely to give less relevant results.