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. Not very Linux loving, are they? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.1 (Legolas))