I got this Beelink mini pc from Amazon planning to hook it up to my living room TV and play movies and stream TV with. And I was shocked and amazed to discover that this little thing could run games like Hi-Fi Rush and MGSV:PP on max settings! Sure the fans made it sound like a small jet engine, but it never skipped frames or lagged on me even once! I know it's not a power house: it couldn't run Yakuza Zero or Neir Automata very well. But I was still thrilled with what it could do!
Well it shipped with Windows 11, and I finally decided to fix that. A couple days ago I switched over to Mint, tho I'm running Kubuntu now. The switch was quick and painless, and honestly getting used to Linux has been pretty fun! But now it runs a lot of my games like a slide show. I've been digging at this for a few days now, updating drivers and setting up Proton. I've found a lot of helpful guides and stuff on line, but very little about the hardware I have in this situation. Apparently AMD processors are great for Linux, but I feel like it's not working with the integrated graphics card. Tried to find the right driver on their website, but I haven't had much luck. So, here's hoping the community can help. Any tips for a newbie?
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U (16) @ 4.37 GHz | GPU: AMD Lucienne [Integrated]
UPDATE:
Thanks again to everyone so far that's offered advice, but it hasn't seemed to have helped much..
I made sure the power mode is set to Performance, and turned the settings all the way to their lowest at 1080p. Someone had suggested using Flatseal to check permissions, but steam did not show up there, so it was seemingly a dead end. I even switched to Bazzite.
But I'm still only getting 10fps at most, regardless of graphic settings. I'm not really sure what else to do at this point.
2nd UPDATE:
Potential success! BananaTrifleViolin asked if the games were running in 4k, which I made sure they weren't. But then I got to thinking about my main desktop display. It defaulted to my TV's 4k size, and the game was running in full screen...
So I fixed that and launched Hi-Fi again to test, and managed to get a stable 30fps! Now to figure out how to make this better, lol
I would highly suggest trying and sticking with Debian KDE. It does all that and more. I've been using it for years. Stable isn't bad, but I've found testing "trixie" better as it has plasma 6. I have done a fair amount of distro hopping on several different types of machines. I prefer anything with plasma 6 over just about anything. Mint is good, but cinnamon feels shackled compared to KDE. Especially with wayland and pipewire on Plasma being nice improvements over the past.
I have a projector, a nice audio system, and a built rig with AMD/AMD all running through Debian with Emby / Steam / Audacious. It's superb and likely the finest linux experience I've had to date.
Only caution on this is KDE has had significant improvements in each of it's point releases. Trixie is looking to launch with KDE 6.3.5 but latest is now 6.4.
It's always a balance between stability and latest release, but KDE has had quite rapid improvement as it's still early in the 6 era. Having said that the it does feel like the changes now coming through are mainly polish and new features rather than fixing fundamental issues - so 6.3.5 might be a good base for Debian Trixie.
I'm using 6.3.5 on Trixie currently and have only experienced a few small bugs here and there. I tend to tweak and break stuff with any OS though. I'm extremely pleased with it's current state now and think Trixie is supposedly releasing in the next few months.