Your Setup makes no sense! Either you have a 5600x OR a 7700x, because both are CPUs.

My top choice: KDE Plasma Wayland.

You even can have multiple Distros on one USB stick to boot into with ventoy :D

Follow the white rabbit: https://lemmy.world/post/5739196

Have you tried: sudo alsactl store

Sadly, no…

This is the best advice!

I can highly recommend #HeroicGamesLauncher as addition to Lutris and Steam.

This is the way!

This is the way.

I had Linux Mint several years, it’s a great Distro on Debian/Ubuntu. But, as a heavy gamer, I needed fresh and up-to-date sources for Mesa and the Kernel and so I switched to EndeavourOS, which is Arch-based and I can highly recommend it! It’s rock solid and gaming is great.

This is the way.