So, I made the switch to Linux Mint about 2 weeks ago, and have been having some issues, specifically with gaming and art programs.
The issues seem to be related to memory. I don’t have the memory to open a large art file in either Krita or GIMP. My Coral Island game keeps crashing (OOM - kill process).
So, it would be easy to assume my computer just doesn’t have the memory for these activities, except . . . they worked fine on Windows. I could open my art files in Photoshop and Coral Island ran like a dream for months.
It’s disheartening because everywhere I look says the issue must be with my machine not having enough memory. But my machine could run everything just fine when using a different OS (with way more things installed).
Does anyone have any help or insight they might be able to provide? I have no interest in going back to Windows.
Thank you!
**SOLVED - increased the swap to 8 GB, which seems to have solved the issue for now. Thank you, everyone, for your help!
Have you ran a memory check? Linux and Windows use memory layouts pretty differently so you may have avoided the bad bits before that are now an issue. https://memtest.org/
Thanks for the resource!
The other thing to do would be to see what is using so much memory. You can use
And sort by memory use.