I would hardly consider high refresh rate monitors to be exotic. They’re quite common.
I wonder what distros they tried though. Considering this is a thread on Nobara I wouldn’t be surprised if they had issues with the variety of gaming distros available
Modem hardware.
The default kernel Mint has installed isn’t new enough to support cards like the 7900 XT. Though this can be fixed by updating the kernel using Mint’s kernel version utility