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Need advice about switching to LM Edge

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Hi. I hope this section is appropriate for this post, my apologies if it's not.
I recently installed edge on my son's gaming laptop, and it works great (thanks again, Clem!). SInce my laptop is a (budget) gaming system, I'm thinking of using Edge as well. I did boot it from USB and it ran so well I really couldn't tell it was running from USB...no lag starting any apps at all.
I have a few questions and a request for advice:

1. Is Cinnamon compatible with Gnome-based apps?
2. While using the USB-boot, Nvidia control center was blank when launched, but drivers did set to latest proprietary drivers easily. Does the control center need to be installed after installing Edge to HDD/SSD?
3. Both my laptop screen & external monitor run at 144hz refresh rate, but display settings would only allow 120hz for the laptop and slightly under 144hz for the monitor (for the monitor, I had to set it as primary display for 144hz to show up as an option). Is this typical? Note: This doesn't happen using LM 20.1 Mate.

I would greatly appreciate some advice regarding whether my hardware would be suited to using Edge, and what problems I may encounter (if any) with using it. Below is my inxi -F output.

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System:
  Host: bill-Strix Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  Desktop: MATE 1.24.0 Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: Strix 17 GL703GE v: 1.0 
  serial: <superuser/root required> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: GL703GE v: 1.0 serial: <superuser/root required> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: GL703GE.320 date: 06/19/2020 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 55.8 Wh condition: 55.8/64.4 Wh (87%) 
CPU:
  Topology: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8750H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  L2 cache: 9216 KiB 
  Speed: 3918 MHz min/max: 800/4100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 900 2: 901 
  3: 901 4: 900 5: 901 6: 900 7: 900 8: 900 9: 900 10: 900 11: 900 12: 901 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia 
  v: 460.73.01 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting,nvidia 
  unloaded: fbdev,nouveau,vesa tty: N/A 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.73.01 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS driver: snd_hda_intel 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-72-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 [Jefferson Peak] driver: iwlwifi 
  IF: wlo1 state: down mac: 94:b8:6d:fb:ad:15 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  driver: r8169 
  IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 04:d9:f5:01:13:e0 
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: 02:42:a0:1a:65:39 
  IF-ID-2: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A 
  IF-ID-3: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A 
  mac: 00:50:56:c0:00:01 
  IF-ID-4: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A 
  mac: 00:50:56:c0:00:08 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 942.70 GiB used: 195.35 GiB (20.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB 
  size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU800 size: 476.94 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 456.96 GiB used: 99.99 GiB (21.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 38 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 356 Uptime: 4m Memory: 31.22 GiB used: 1.90 GiB (6.1%) 
  Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.38 
Thanks for your time!
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Re: Need advice about switching to LM Edge

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https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedoc ... /edge.html

says this..
Warning

The Edge ISO image is not as stable as the other ISOs and may not support as many proprietary drivers. Only use it if you cannot boot or install with the other ISOs.
So I am not sure that, in your circumstances, it would make sense.
As one of the differences is that it runs the 5.8 kernel you could just try installing the latest one of them in Update Manager.
The advantage of that would be it would be very easy to switch back at grub to the 5.4 kernel if the 5.8 actually made things worse for you..
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Re: Need advice about switching to LM Edge

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RIH wrote: Sun May 09, 2021 8:23 am https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedoc ... /edge.html

says this..
Warning

The Edge ISO image is not as stable as the other ISOs and may not support as many proprietary drivers. Only use it if you cannot boot or install with the other ISOs.
So I am not sure that, in your circumstances, it would make sense.
As one of the differences is that it runs the 5.8 kernel you could just try installing the latest one of them in Update Manager.
The advantage of that would be it would be very easy to switch back at grub to the 5.4 kernel if the 5.8 actually made things worse for you..
Thanks! Sounds like good advice. :)
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