I’ve settled on openSUSE and Fedora. All my personal systems are currently on some version of openSUSE but zypper sucks so I’m considering the move back to Fedora. Oh and my son and wife’s laptops are on Fedora just cause I never moved them to openSUSE.
I game, so I often need my graphics stack patched with less than open-source patches, which you have to figure out for yourself on Fedora. I also had issues with…i think it was SELinux, since I had never used it before but it’s on by default in Fedora. But that was more of a “I’ve never used this before wtf do i do” than “wtf bad”
Last year I had ~370 contributions on Github, and some unknown number on other platforms (email, gitlab, project specific gitlab instance, etc.). I’ve very sadly dropped off as of late.
Redirecting output aside, these are datacenter cards, and are scaled differently than gaming cards. Lower clock speeds and such. I’m not sure how good for actual gaming they would be.
There’s a few factors that drew me towards the Tesla card. The main one being size, because of the way the precision is designed there’s really no room for tall graphics cards with big coolers and a power connector on the side. I’ve been looking at the Quadros as well but I think they’re still a bit expensive for the performance and age. Gaming isn’t the only purpose this card would get use for either, probably some Cuda/OpenCL stuff, maybe play around with some AI stuff and power a Windows VM (vgpu). At the moment the Tesla P40 is around $280AUD ($182USD) while the Quadro P4000 is around $400AUD ($261USD). An RTX 3050 8gb would probably be alright but there don’t seem to be any in the second hand market for a reasonable price
So these cards have only heatsinks and no fans. They’re designed to be used in hot/cold aisle facilities with the server cooling package moving the air. You’re going to need to work around that if you want to use one, or you’ll quickly overheat the card.
There’s kind of a reason why they’re so cheap. They’re fiddly to deal with, and take a lot of coercion if you want to make it do anything other that what it was designed for (be a headless rendering farm for videos and maybe AI). That said I did find this which might do what you want it to do. reddit.com/…/shocked_and_impressed_by_the_state_o…
I want to say back in the Haswell days there was a weird push for having hybrid GPU setups on desktops, and the iGPU would actually help the dGPU in some cases. Maybe you could find something from around then to coax that GPU into working?
That said do you need a Quadro or god forbid the Tesla for what you’re doing? A regular ass GTX 1080 would probably better for what you’re doing. Founders edition GPUs are a conventional blower and are only the height of the pcie slot (plus power cables).
Thanks, I might just start with an RX 580 since they’re quite cheap here and keep a Quadro around for CUDA stuff and upgrade that to a Tesla in the future if needed.
The most graphically demanding game I have is Age Of Empires III Definitive Edition and I only have 1920x1080 monitors. It’s actually playable at near max settings on the Quadro but wouldn’t mind a frame rate boost. I’ll probably just need to remove the support bracket on the inside of the side panel
I’ve been in the support channel for yuzu linux, and you would not believe all the issues people have with games freezing, etc that are instantly fixed by using the appimage instead of the flatpak.
Also flatpaks are non-xdg compliant, since it creates the useless ~/.var directory. And they have said over and over that they won’t fix that. So fuck them.
Not to mention all the issues people have with their theming and integration into the system.
Appimages are just simpler and better, the other day I was thinking how many issues would be fixed if Steam shipped as an appimage.
It would allow for shipping a patch glibc with EAC
It would allow for moving all the nonsense that steam puts in the home user dir, since appimages support a portable home.
It would allow for shipping the 32bit libraries instead of having to install them system wide.
And depending on how you go about, appimages will even take less disk space than flatpaks or native packages even though you don’t get shared libraries with those, because they are compressed which reduces their size significantly.
Like for example the LibreWolf appimage is 110MiB while a the native package for librewolf 300MiB. Same with LibreOffice, the appimage is 300MiB while the native package is 600 MiB.
It also makes it easier to downgrade if you run into an issue, like I had to had an older appimage of ferdium because the latest version is affected by an electron bug that broke its zoom functionality.
I mean the native NixOS package of Steam (instead of flatpak), not that the Steam package uses native libs.
I believe Steam on NixOS always uses the Steam runtime, because NixOS isn’t FHS compliant, thus apps wouldn’t find any libs. No, I don’t think there’s steam-native on NixOS.
I’ve been enjoying endeavourOS for a while now. Great intro to arch and also not really all that different to Debian in day to day use. It’s nice having a more recent kernel and the NVIDIA drivers have worked flawlessly for me. It has been one of the smoothest experience out of the box next to Debian. NixOS and several others just gave me all sorts of headaches trying to make them work, the experience was subpar on this desktop build.
endeavoros has a major pitfall for new users that it has no default hooks to update bootloader, so to the uninitiated it will soon eventually “brick” itself (when grub changes it’s config syntax or whatever)
for example, if GRUB changes the syntax of the config file, then the mismatching configuration can result in an unbootable system. it’s so annoying because all it needs is a script to run automatically any time pacman sees that grub got an update. it just has to rerun grub-mkconfig
Ah, EndeavourOS uses systemd-boot by default these days (it definitely does update that by automatically as well), I would really advise new users changing it away from that default.
Edit: Whoops, slight typo there. I wouldn’t advise new users changing away from the default systemd-boot option.
Was curious myself don’t like flatpaks & appimages much, but from a quick googling, they don’t seem to integrate with the desktop so you need to launch them from terminal? That is a deal breaker for me at least.
you have to set up the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable to take into account ~/.nix-profile/sharethe desktop icons will only appear after a relogin though.
I remember Gens back in the day, really solid competitor to Fusion, but hasn’t been updated in a good decade. Last system I had it installed on was a laptop with 14.04, IIRC. I might still have a .deb of it on a hard drive somewhere, now I’m curious to see if it would work on a more modern OS/machine. On a similar note, anyone know if Gens was forked or anything like a successor cropped up anywhere?
On laptop with Ryzen 5 5500U (12 threads) it takes 50 minutes and on desktop with Ryzen 7 3700X (16 threads) it takes 20 minutes. I use all threads to compile the kernel.
It compiles way waster with Gentoo, because it has minimal config. I used the default config from Arch repos and modified it. It’s full of unneeded drivers, but I’m scared of disabling them. I already disabled wrong drivers a few times and had to use different kernel to boot.
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