the last few months have been really trying my patience.
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A gamebar update made it ignore the two settings that disable it appearing when you press the guide button on a controller. I occasionally use gamebar for some features so I would like to keep it installed, but I use the guide button for steam and retroarch so I need it to not pop up when I'm running those applications. Since the settings are now being ignored, I had to use powershell to remove game bar and make two registry edits to prevent a pop up complaining gamebar is missing when I launched a game.
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When I play games on my TV, I prefer to have my desktop monitors disabled, and vice versa. I had been using a combination of stream deck buttons tied to hotkeys for a program called monitor profile switcher, which I had been using since windows 10 and had been working perfectly in windows 11 up until about a month ago. Now when I turn on my TV, no matter what input I have selected windows 11 immediately disables my desktop monitors and switches to the TV, and when I power it off it causes my desktop monitors to glitch out every time a window is drawn, until I either reseat the displayport cable or power cycle the pc. (My assumption is display stream compression is not getting turned on again for some reason).
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When I select shut down on my PC, it immediately resets to the windows login screen, skipping the bios screen. If I disable fast boot in the bios this fixes it, but windows acts like I've made hardware changes and forces me to re log into my microsoft account.
I am completely dependent on windows specific programs and features to compute, and have done the math to see what impact switching to linux would have on me, and in the past that math has always worked out to it not being worth it. The last couple months have started to tip the scales.
so if you want to use a live image of a linux install and have an nvidia card, you can just go fuck yourself? Like I can get in via compatibility mode, but I'd like to see what linux can do with my specific setup before committing and with proper drivers.
after numerous troubleshooting steps, an attempt to run two separate live linux installs to see if maybe it was time to switch to linux, failing because the nvidia drivers are not enabled in live images, getting mad and going to best buy to purchase a spare nvme to just install linux and get it over with, getting accused of stealing said nvme drive when we went back to the car and found no drive in the box, settling up with the store manager and getting a smaller drive than intended, getting home, installing linux mint, failing to get desktop on boot until I booted into compatibility mode and installed the nvidia drivers, and then failing to get a game that can only run in borderless full screen to not vsync tear in the x desktop manager, switching to wayland and not getting a screen output at all, I have concluded that 2024 is not the year of the linux desktop for me.
I did however solve the problem with my tv setup. A word of advice, do not buy a monitor with a remote if its the same brand as your TV.
