Win 10 IOT Enterprise LTSC will be my last Windows. I’m fairly sure Linux will be significantly greater in 2032, so I can avoid this spyware trash. Unfortunately my area of expertise is C#/.NET, so I’m stuck with this trash when I will be a working citizen.
Ok, I tried that but is it just supposed to display a triangle? It also didn’t have a GUI, is that only in the MacOS version of the app or am I supposed to run the .py file? If I’m to run the .py file, that is something I don’t know how to do.
There’s a bunch of benchmarks you can run apart from the triangle, like Furmark which render a more complex scene. I’ve only used the shell scripts, no idea what the python script does.
Honestly your best bet is probably to use a game with a built-in benchmark over Steam. That way you get numbers that are somewhat comparable to the ones from public sources (game review sites/videos).
I don’t know why there isn’t a proper tool like 3DMark for Linux systems.
When you say “built-in benchmark over Steam” what does that mean? If that is a common thing, I have a steam account but I’ve never really used it before as I get pretty much all of my games from itch.
Oh ok, but on top of the fact that I can’t run that game, I don’t really need help anymore. I’ve already determined that I’m pretty sure that my GPU is having hardware problems.
I use the unigine benchmarks sometimes. unigine-heaven and unigine-superposition (which btw is just cool to watch in my opinion). They provide linux packages here benchmark.unigine.com , check your distributions repos too though, some include these too though it’s rare. They are not open source, but games usually aren’t either.
The phoronix one that someone else posted also looks cool, I’ll have to try that one out next time I need something like this.
I tried to download unigine but I can’t seem to figure out how to download it. I’m using Linux Mint and the only download option seems to be a .run file which doesn’t seem to be executable in Mint. I also don’t know how to look through the repositories and when I tried to install “unigine-heaven” in apt, it told me it couldn’t find it in the repositories. So unless it’s called something else when you install it through apt, I don’t know how to download it.
Also, I did look into Phoronix but it only mentions that it benchmarks CPUs and not GPUs.
I’ll have to tell you later, I’m trying to re-download it but it seems like my ISP is throttling my internet connection because Firefox is telling me that it’s going to take an hour and a half to download, even though the first time only took a few minutes to download.
Ok that worked, as it turns out, the problem was that I’ve never used a .run file before and, at least from what I can tell, .run files are similar to .sh files.
Anyways, I’ve never really done benchmark tests before but I did play around with it a little. The settings I used was low graphics, full screened to the custom resolution of 1360x768 (the resolution of the monitor I use) and everything else was disabled. The frame rate ranged from 12 to 26 (or at least somewhere around that), does that seem good for an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics?
SOLVED: So the boot order was correct in UEFI, but for some reason CSM was disabled. Re-enabling that now causes GRUB to appear, and the PC boots into Linux without any other input. Thanks everyone!
Do you know what the browser test is called or how to run it?
I didn’t run glxgears and I did run glmark2 yesterday but I stopped it half way through. If I remember correctly, the frame rates from the test ranged from 80 to over 1000 fps depending on the test but I have no idea if that’s good for the GPU or bad because I don’t remember the results I got on my old computer. If someone knows GPUs well enough, my old GPU was an intel HD Graphics 3000 and the GPU in this computer is an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics.
Also, I looked into Phoronix but it looks like it just benchmarks CPUs.
I did find it but it is just a VSYNC test thing. Not sure how to diagnose these things. The only time I had major issues was when I installed the wrong drivers, so user error. Maybe the distro you’re using has an IRC or Matrix chat room that would be willing to help out?
I’m using Linux Mint and I’m just using the drivers that were preinstalled by the distro. If it’s possible that Mint installed the wrong drivers somwhow, I wouldn’t know where to look to get help with that.
It is using the integrated GPU, it’s a laptop that only has an integrated GPU. Also, lshw is having the same problem it had with my old computer, where it doesn’t seem to list the right clock speed and just says it’s running at 33Mhz. I know this is wrong because on my old computer, other software would state the clock speed was much higher. But another thing I’m noticing that’s wrong is the GPU is listed as an R3 when the GPU is actually an R2, so unless they share drivers, It’s possible that Mint (I’m using Linux Mint) installed the wrong drivers.
Unigine-heaven was available by itself and it worked but I’ve never benchmark tested anything before. The settings I used was low graphics, full screened to the custom resolution of 1360x768 (the resolution of the monitor I use) and everything else was disabled. The frame rate ranged from 12 to 26 (or at least somewhere around that), does that seem good for an AMD Radeon R2 Graphics?
Also that command returns this: `WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
Be it for economic reasons, be it for any other reason this is really good news! Kudos to Greece and to all Greek people. My country, Italy, is still below 1% as of June 2023 according to statcounter so there’s still a lot of work to do! Seeing Linux as an option to bring back to life second hand or old hardware, preventing wastes and promoting circular economy is an idea I really like.
You don’t have to redownload all your games. I just switched to the flatpak this past month, here’s what I did:
Leave steam installed natively, install the flatpak alongside it, using flatpak steam, open the root of the library folder (should be steamapps), then find the corresponding folder from the native install and recursively hardlink all the files from the native install’s steamapps folder to the flatpak’s steamapps folder. Quit steam and reopen and all your games should be detected.
It’ll need to “update” basically all of them for at least a second to verify the files and it might need to re-process Vulkan shaders, but that’s it.
how do I hardlink files? I’ve been using linux for a few years but I’ve never really used links before for files. This seems to be the best strategy because everything else hasn’t worked so far
cp is the copy paste CLI tool. -l flag tells it to make a hard link instead of a second copy of the data itself on the disk. The -r flag tells it to recurse, so “do this copy operation on everything in every folder under the top level directory I hand you to copy”
Thanks for this! I ended up fixing the local steam install (ended up being a network manager problem with steam) but I’ll keep this in mind because I’ll probably want to switch to the flatpak version in the future anyway
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