I’m ready to make the switch from win to linux but I’m still learning. My objective:
1º Configure Fedora on bare metal for maximum performace.
2º Configure KVM for maximum performance with Fedora VM’s. (compare bare-metal benchmarks with virtualized)
3º Configure KVM for maximum performance with Windows 10 with single GPU passthrough.
So far I installed Fedora33 and I will go about step one mentioned above. I updated the OS and installed Nvidia proprietary drivers.
Is there anything I can do to improve performance further on Linux? What’s your opinion on the benchmarks?
SPECS:
MBD: MSI B450 TOMAHAWK MAX
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2060
RAM: G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3600 C17 2x16GB
BENCHMARKS SUMMARY
1 is the baseline and the % corresponds to the ammount of improved performance.
BENCHMARKS EXTENDED
(the first screenshot is always win10 and the second one is always Fedora)
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Im curious why you chose Fedora with an RTX2060?
As a guest or as a host?
To be honest there is no valid reason for choosing Fedora over other distros. Do you recommend another distro for this GPU?
My experience with Linux is very limited but I am getting so sick of using windows10 that I’m trying to gradually make the switch.
Working with software from Adobe seems to be my biggest difficulty when it comes to that. I’ve been reading and watching some videos related to KVM and single GPU passthrough and that got me interested so I thought about the following setup:
HOST - Fedora33 where I would install only drivers and KVM.
VM 1 - Fedora33: guest used exclusively for work related stuff.
VM2 - Fedora33: guest used for personal stuff, social media, etc
VM3 - Win10: guest used for media editing (adobe stuff, DaVinci, etc). This way I could gradually detox from windows buying time to learn linux
VM4 - Guest used for testing other distros, exploring Linux etc…
I figured this way I could effectively divide work / personal bringing more efficiency and security. I would not need to dual boot and I could switch between setups quickly or even run some at the same time.
I was thinking about going with Mint Cinnamon but I kind of like the clean look from gnome. I thought Fedora had better integration with KVM/QEMU (boxes also got my attention although I ended up going with virt manager. I figured I would only need to install and configure one distro and then clone it.
I already got everything to work with Fedora as a guest but I cannot enable openGL without getting a black screen (I searched and a lot of people have the same problem without being able to fix it).
With windows I did not have success setting up a single GPU passthrough but I will leave that for later.
Sorry for the long post but I had to explain myself because maybe I’m approaching the problem the wrong way.
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