Fresh Mint Install having severe performance and downloading issues | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:11 AM

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[Description/steps]
We installed Linux mint on my partner’s pc yesterday, after running into some major issues with a windows update wiping their data and locking them out. We installed steam and discord, and started installing games. We ran into a few small issues, but after a graphics driver update it was working okay. Then I queued a bunch of their downloads and went to bed.

When I woke up (and few hours later) steam had basically frozen. Any downloads just freeze and are unable to process. This remains after restarting the computer multiple times.

[expected vs actual]
Games can’t download, and installed games won’t launch.

[Additional Info]
Some details:
11th gen Intel Core i5-11400F @ 2.60 GHz x 6
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
Linux Mint 22.2 Cinnamon
Cinnamon v6.4.8
Linux Kernel 6.14.0-32-generic
31.2 gb ram
4500 gb hard drives

We installed steam from flatpak, unsure if that’d have any effect

Storage mediums are disk drives. This is my personal biggest suspect, I do not know how to get more info on these but lmk if you can think of any clarifying details I can prod at.

Thanks a billion for reading my post, any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:16 AM

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the picture of the Disks app is showing an NTFS volume. I would not use ntfs on Linux

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it is made for Windows

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:16 AM

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Gotchya, how would we best format that then?

onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:16 AM

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Steam wont work good, files will coppy slower, and it will incur errors over time

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secondly, u should confirm secure boot and video card

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:17 AM

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onyx ivy secondly, u should confirm secure boot and video card

How would I go about doing that?

onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:17 AM

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do mokuti --sb && inxi -Gxxx for a direct approach

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driver must not say n/a and secure boot should say disabled

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:18 AM

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Side note I got a game to install perfectly to the main drive instead of the side ones, would still like to fix those though

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:18 AM

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onyx ivy do `mokuti --sb && inxi -Gxxx` for a direct approach

It says ‘mokuti’ is not a valid command

onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:19 AM

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oops

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add an l to it

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mokutil

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:19 AM

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Oh util

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Gotchya, no worries

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onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:20 AM

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looks ok

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show lsblk -f results with all connected drives mounted before running it

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:22 AM

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So how’d I best go about reformatting the drives?

onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:22 AM

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your linux should be on an ext4 or btrfs volume

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sorry can u do clear

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then maximize the window

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rerun lsblk -f and show

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:23 AM

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onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:24 AM

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ok

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yeh i'll just link u a different post

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to fix the sda and sdb

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:25 AM

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Thanks a billion, I really appreciate your time and diagnosis

onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:27 AM

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#1421788556862558240 message

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there to end. you dont have to do anything with tune2fs mentioned later.

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note, if anything important on either sda or sdb rn, do back that data up elsewhere

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 4:29 AM

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Wonderful. I’ll follow that then mark this post as solved after if that’s all good, is it good if I ping you if I have further issues or should I do something else

onyx ivy Sep 30, 2025, 4:30 AM

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regarding performance, it should work fine other than current ntfs issues

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keep both monitors on the same Hz, as they are now

sudden plank Sep 30, 2025, 5:03 AM

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@onyx ivy this worked, thankyou so much for your time and help, I’ll make the thread as completed

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