Well this was clear as mud. Thanks for everyone responding but as far as I can tell there isn’t a definitive answer to my question and I’m still at “worst case scenario it’s a reinstall of the OS.”
Next question: Has anyone made an AMD card that A. fits in the GPU bay of a Fractal Node 202 and has significantly more grunt than a blower-style GTX-1080? I think the 6700 was the most recent viable option I saw? I think? It’s been a hot minute since I went GPU shopping, but since time lost all meaning a few year minutes ago I…
Like the whole thing that made me pick the GTX-1080 I’ve got is…well I got it for free out of a machine a relative of mine was retiring, and also that it ejects all hot air through the IO plate out of the chassis, which I felt was wise given the Node 202’s respiratory limitations. Then they stopped making blower-style cards.
It shouldn’t be clear as mud. The answer is: it will work out of the box. Just try it.
As I said in another comment, I had a system running nvidia and Pop. AMD card worked with no issues and no additional software installed. I removed the nvidia stuff some months later. It doesn’t affect anything in the meantime.
The only reason it will not work would be if OP has manually configured stuff in /etc/X11 in some way. You can even have both in the system at the same time (which does require a little bit of extra configuration). Absolute worst case you check out /var/log/Xorg.0.log it tells you the config you forgot in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf 5 years ago doesn’t work because the GPU is gone, you delete it, restart Xorg and you’re good to go.
Even on Windows it’s kind of a myth. Some people are like you need to DDU the old driver in safe mode before swapping them out. You can really have them both installed it’s just going to be weird because on Windows both vendors come with ridiculous amounts of bloat.
AMD cards just works as long as your distro is reasonably up to date. No extra drivers, in fact, installing AMDGPU-PRO is usually worse unless you fit some specific use cases.
I am very happy with it. I did switch from Kubuntu to Manjaro KDE, but that was not because of the GPU. The only thing that bothers me is that the fans can be noisy during some games at high load. But during everyday desktop use the fans are idle since its passive cooling capabilities are good (I have one from Powercolor, so any other brand may be different on this point). For me, the temp stays at <40°C for normal desktop use. I haven’t seen it go over 83 during gaming. You can adjust the fan curve with Corectl and even overclock it (I haven’t) if you want; but everything else just works without additional drivers/software. Now, I don’t play heavy fps games, but the games I do play are lag/stutter free. My most taxing game atm is Cities Skylines 2 and I get a solid 60fps with that and my heavily modded Minecraft runs smooth as butter. All in all, I think the card gives excellent value for money.
Awesome,that is great to hear. I was looking at the Sapphire version of that card but Powercolor also came up.
My current card is about 12 years old so anything would be an improvement at this point!
VokoscreenNG is a screencasting tool that works with Raspberry Pi OS, I tested it on my Pi 400. And it’s also easy to install, just sudo apt install vokoscreen-ng gstreamer1.0-pipewire.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed gets recommended here a lot. Just be aware: It’s an expert distro masquerading as beginner-friendly.
Out of the box, it won’t recognize printers and scanners. Setting them up is a hassle without cups-airprint and sane-airscan which aren’t preinstalled, and the latter is only available through a user’s repo.
Printer setup will also fail unless you add an exception to the built-in firewall. Nothing in the GUI tells you about this.
It also won’t play web videos before you install the codecs. These are available in the packman repo, which will require learning the concept of repo priorities and “vendor-change”, what it does and when to use it. (It can break your system)
The package manager is very sophisticated and complex, but some of its features shouldn’t be used in Tumbleweed. Updating Tumbleweed like you would the normal fixed release system is possible (in fact, if you use the GUI, it’s the default) but it will break your system.
And the system administration tool YAST offers a lot of functionality that is already present in the KDE options. What the differences are? Who knows.
Just gonna drop this here incase you need it as it confused me to begin with
Kernel = core of Linux, pretty much every distro uses the same kernel and it’s got a lot of stuff built in (drivers, some command line utilities, etc)
Distro - built ontop of the kernel, the main parts that differentiate them are:
The package manager (how you install software, probably the most important part when picking a distro)
The desktop environment (the system UI, essentially just another program on Linux so it can be swapped out for another one if you fancy a change)
(There are also things called window managers which are basically just stripped down versions of desktop environments that tend to be far more DIY but also more customisable)
And the preinstalled packages, which for the most part are the same on most popular distros, plus with things like snap, flatpak and appimage dependencies are much less of an issue anyway
If you have any experience with programming and want to try something new and interesting I would recommend giving NixOS a go, your entire system is defined by one configuration file (you can split it into multiple files, but you decide how to do that)
Makes understanding and building a system so much simpler and saner, all the advantages of arch with none of the elitism
Boot from a live distro so you can modify your boot disk. Use the disk utility to create partitions. Copy the data to the relevant partitions ensuring to maintain file ownership and permissions. Modify /etc/fstab to mount the partitions at the designated locations in the filesystem.
I don’t bother putting anything but /home on its own dedicated partition, but if you ask 10 people this question you’ll get 12 opinions, so just do what feels right.
Note: Create your partitions from your empty space. You may need to resize your existing partition to do this. But don’t practice on your main drive.
This is a simple job, in that the steps are few, but it’s something that causes catastrophic data loss if you get it wrong.
I’d recommend buying a cheap second drive, doesn’t have to be big or even good. Partition it, mount it, make sure you can make the partitions automatically mount, teach yourself to copy data around, umount it and remount, make sure you got it right.
Just… these are all very simple things. I wouldn’t hesitate to repartition my own drives. But if you fuck it up you fuck it up good. Make sure you know the operations you’re taking first. Measure twice, cut once, all that jazz.
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