Would you experienced Linux users recommend and Intel or AMD CPU for a gaming/streaming secondary PC?
As far as CPU goes both are fine. You canāt go wrong with any Intel or Ryzen CPU.
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I will tell you right now, they repack āgrandma friendlyā Linux live CDs all the time. You have reason to be weary. Awesome Hardware gets these shady live CDs on a daily basis.
Just download an official ISO or spin. Youāre way safer that way.
I am ok with dealing with the bugs and hiccups. What I want to know is if I can play games using Wine + DXVK on my laptop. I do not have a LTT laptop with bleeding edge specs. Mine is a i5 - 7200U with 8gb DDR4 and 940Mx and I play @ 1366x768 resolution. Will the overhead be enough to cause games to lag? Keep in mind I do not need LTT fps. I am ok with getting 35fps in games as long as I can run it at high graphics with shadows turned off.
Weāre talking about different levels of ready.
Yes, Windows 10 is not as good as Windows 7, but itās still easier than Linux.
When you say clean install, do you mean, that you got the ISO from Microsoft instead of using the recovery partition ?
In my experience (Lenovo T460P, i5 & 940 Mx) you are going to have a much worse time than windows. Assuming you run directly on the GPU without Optimus it might be ok, but with bumblebee performance will be abysmal.
If you get a chance and watch the video of Linux bang his head against the wall doing hot-plug / hot-removal of PCIeā¦
Willing to give it a try to see if that is a work around for the vega uefi bug?
I was planning on using the intel iGPU for linux and passing the 940mx through for gaming. So what you are saying is I should wait for bumblebee to get better? Canāt I just use intel gpu for regular day to day linux and passthrough 940mx when gaming?
@nx2l can you please elaborate on the vega uefi bug ? iām unfamiliar with it.
@Dragyon not accurate:
BumbleBee is the combination of intel and nvidia graphics.
The nvidia is connected to the igpu, everything interfaces with the igpu.
Forgot its other name.
There was something mentioned here on the forum.
Nvidia-xrun as a fix / Solution for some perf-problems on bumblebee.
Have you watched the livestream?
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if you meant me, nope. gona give it a look now : )
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That laugh brings joy to my soul every time. Regardless of my day, my mood, my weekā¦ @wendell has swagger and charm 
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The video was perfect for this situation.
The ethos of the video was to show what linux gaming really looks like and this it is viable for stuff in 2018 (not just old stuff).
If you want to grow the audience then you need to show them how viable the platform is and what success looks like instead of a 50 point āhow toā video1 that most people will just skip because of overload.
The companion article, which goes into detail, is for the people who became curious about the show and tell video.
I myself got started in the tech scene 5 years ago because I found an LTT video, and then found TekSyndicate, and look where I am now.
A lot of the time the word just needs to get out to people that something other than Windows and OSX exists.
- The detailed how-tos are definitely needed, but not right off the bat. Get them interested and then have the material available separately.
Can you use looking glass with integrated graphics on the host machine?
MY Mobo is too small to fit another GPU. Itās pretty dicey, even with a PCIe riser.
does optimization guides and relative benchmarking, expect vs. native in the future. We just need to gear up for standardized testing on baremetal
Good video would have been nice to look at some of the native library.
How a compiled list of desired guides? For instance installing linux with some nvidia cards still requires nomodeset to use the GUI installerā¦ Or installing the amdgpu pro driver for freesync support. We can show Linux through rose colored glasses all day but the first problem a newb runs into will scare them away especially if they were apprehensive to use the OS. And catastrophe on Linux is imminent when dabbling.
There is no additional drivers GUI for the AMDGPU drivers, you need to update to the latest kernel and mesa to get the latest code, this is what they talked about in the video, not Nvidia drivers.
edit: Essentially, the AMDGPU code because its open source is within a number of Linux components, the kernel, mesa, vulkan, etc. so to get the latest improvements and updates requires having newer kernels and mesa. This is generally not a problem for distros that update faster, but for distros like Ubuntu it can be beneficial to use some ppas to get newer mesa code and get the newest kernel. Especially with newer cards like Vega cards.
With nvidia this isnāt the case, the driver is all a binary blob has its own opengl stack etc, Ubuntu generally ships the latest or one version behind nvidia driver for the current kernel they use.
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