So far my only complaint with Linux Mint is occasionally the video card completely wigs out and the whole screen goes corrupted until I reboot. I'm not sure if it's a hardware thing or not but nothing like it happened when that computer was running Windows.
It's only happened twice so far, and both times I was doing multiple things at once so it's hard to pin it to anything specific. It's my oldest computer running an old AMD R7 250 so it very well could be a hardware or driver problem.
@mrencyclopedia Oh huh, I've been having similar problems with my Mint install on my desktop except the display server completely crashes, and the system is never fully stable at that point after it reloads.
@lepidotos Mine looks like a screen full of pink/white stationary static, with a whiter square that moves around when I move the mouse (presumably, because it IS the mouse) but nothing else I do changes anything on the screen except rebooting, which brings it back like nothing happened.
@mrencyclopedia Mine's green and pink and white, so generally similar, though it does have some resemblance to the image before the crash so maybe not the same thing, or just our different video cards having problems differently. Same here to the rebooting fixing it though.
@mrencyclopedia i don't use #linuxmint so i don't i can help, but hopefully people following the hashtag could
@mrencyclopedia that's quite a complaint though
@mrencyclopedia AMD or Nvidia (or even Intel)? I know there's the official Nvidia driver vs the open-source nouveau driver. AMD should be amdgpu, but could be the older radeon driver. Intel should be i915 in almost all cases.
@wedgestratos it's an older AMD card (R7 250) running on the "radeon" driver, though apparently support for this card on amdgpu is in the works?