Linux Mint question

[kuddlesworth9419]

When I installed Linux Mint I just checked the box to install it in a dual boot with Windows 7 like I wanted it it. However now that I have Linux Mint I find it's slower then using Windows 7. So did Mint install on my HDD not my SSD and how would I find this out. Windows 7 is on my SSD by the way.

[Benjio]

If you go into disk management in Windows it should show you which partitions are on which drive.

Edit: Nevermind, didn't realize they were on the same partition, sorry.

[Fulgrim]

When i tried Mint a while back, it gives you the choice to install it alongside windows. I found that made it sluggish, so i made a partition just for Mint, on one of my other HD's, and it ran fine.

[kuddlesworth9419]

When i tried Mint a while back, it gives you the choice to install it alongside windows. I found that made it sluggish, so i made a partition just for Mint, on one of my other HD's, and it ran fine.

Well it doesn't matter all that much because at some point I will be leaving Windows for good and going full Linux. The only thing that is really holding me back is the lack of games for Linux and the lack of support for the games I already own. Wine is good and all but it really isn't the answer to the problem. The answer would have to be for Linux to get full Direct X support which someone recently has managed to do and for every/most existing games to get some kind of port to Linux. If Steam payed or got permission from the original dev's or publishers to do this and they went and did it themselves like GOG have been doing I think that would be a really good idea.

[Fulgrim]

Well it doesn't matter all that much because at some point I will be leaving Windows for good and going full Linux. The only thing that is really holding me back is the lack of games for Linux and the lack of support for the games I already own. Wine is good and all but it really isn't the answer to the problem. The answer would have to be for Linux to get full Direct X support which someone recently has managed to do and for every/most existing games to get some kind of port to Linux. If Steam payed or got permission from the original dev's or publishers to do this and they went and did it themselves like GOG have been doing I think that would be a really good idea.

Wait another year and hopefully Valve will have a stable release of SteamOS out, then use that. 

[kuddlesworth9419]

Wait another year and hopefully Valve will have a stable release of SteamOS out, then use that. 

I am not interested in SteamOS. I am more of a Mint kind of person but if it effects SteamOS it will have to effect all the other Linux Distro's to won't it.

[Humbug]

Wait another year and hopefully Valve will have a stable release of SteamOS out, then use that. 

Valve's work is benefiting the entire linux ecosystem.

 

So there is no need to use steamOS in order to benefit from that. Especially on the desktop there are more appropriate distros. The games work across a range of Linux distros not just steamos.

[kuddlesworth9419]

You I just checked my partitions in WIndows and Mint installed on my HDD not my SSD. The boot time in Mint is still pretty fast though but it does explain why the OS doesn't feel as responsive as W7 which is on an SSD. 

[elkenrod]

Once you install Mint on your SSD, you will find it markedly faster than Windows.

 

Dat multiple monitor support doe.... is just shameful