* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [01-01-70 12:34]:
On 02/01/2020 01.55, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 12/31/2019 11:37 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I bought a Ryzen CPU and motherboard, but I'm waiting for the RAM. So, still untested. I'm trying to avoid NVidia and Intel CPUs
Carlos, why the Nvidia avoidance? I've been trying to avoid the others for decades. I always thought that Nvidia had better Linux support, and we actually have some users taking advantage of Nvidia GPU's for data processing and presentation.
My current Nvidia card is no longer supported by Nvidia proprietary driver, I have to use legacy. And the legacy driver misses some thing (I don't remember the name, but I can find out, there is a bugzilla on it) that makes it be incompatible with packages such as the flight simulator, one of the few games I play, or rather played. So I'm going to try amd video this time, as I'm told they work better with open software.
Another.
Do you what is optimus hardware? A nice idea. Laptops with this can use the low power battery loving Intel video, but when the application needs more power it switches automatically to the Nvidia chip. Nice, right? Well, it is a pain in the ass (ask Daniel). Well, after so many years, they have now created the support for it in the NVidia proprietary driver.
but only applied to particular laptops, not all and now there is support. for many years one had to pay particular attention to components to assure they purchased equipment that was supported. not nearly so much any more.
Not very Linux loving, are they?
so they step up and supply something needed and get chastised for it? that's not your brain talking, Carlso. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org