How can I fix screen tearing in Linux?

you can't

enjoy your broken pajeet OS

>>60583165
are you using hardware acceleration in those players?

>>60583165
Use Intel

>>60583165
Have you used Gnome with Wayland? It has no screen tearing. If you have Nvidia though, good luck.

>>60583165
This will be present on all distros.
Linux isn't meant for media consumption.

It's a server-only OS

>>60583165
Make sure you have the video card drivers loaded, as opposed to the default XVesa driver. You might either have to find it in the software repository, or download it from the manufacturers website.

>>60583165
hey fag, how about some more info? gpu?

>>60583165
Step 1: Get rid of your weak shit poorfag hardware
Step 2: Install GNOME and log into the wayland session

[spoiler]it also happens on windows[/spoiler]

>>60584652
Only ever happened to me on Windows 7. But installing my AMD drivers seemed to have fixed it.
Assuming OP is using an AMD card you need to add:
Option "TearFree" "on"
to your xorg.conf, and it fixes it. Happens to me in every distro until I add it.

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>>60583165
Find out what video driver you're using.

Create a file in

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

, named e.g. 20-intel.conf and containing

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Intel Graphics"
        Driver          "intel"
        Option          "TearFree"      "true"
EndSection

Hack this to fit if you're using Radeon or some other driver.

And tearing's gone.

>>60583178
>>60583342
>I couldn't manage to install Linux Mint so now I pretend it's just an inferior OS
kek, poor goyim

>>60583165
GNOME/Weston/Sway/Velox (Wayland - good tier)
xorg.config or compositror ( shit tier)

Arch with Xfce

>>60583165
>read documentation
>install drivers
>read documentation
>realize that the drivers don't include the GPU microcode because of freedom
>install the microcode
>everything works
>laugh at the retarded 99% of GNU/Linux "users" who "fixed it" by installing a compositor over a compositor over a compositor, but never tell them to keep them ignorant