I did notice that sometimes the flatpack version of a program didn’t seem to always recognise my graphic card. I’ve seen this first with Handbrake, but also with other apps seems to get better performance with the mint package or the official ppa. Did anyone notice anything similar?

I’m using Mint on an old HP laptop with a nvidia card so if anything I’m glad that everything is recognised properly (safeboot disabled).

  • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My best guess is that it’s not a Flatpak permissions issue as others are claiming; the software is just trying to use your iGPU (which is usually crappy) instead of your dGPU.

    Try taking whatever command you use to start the program and tacking DRI_PRIME=1 on the front. This has often worked for me on applications regardless of whether they’re native or Flatpak.