This PC uses a last-gen CPU which was a value buy before AMD moved to a new platform. It’s basically a budget build at a non-budget price with an overpriced GPU in it. For AMD CPUs, you should look for the 7000 series, and for Intel you’d want the 13000 series.
If you’re up for it, I strongly recommend building your own PC, perhaps getting help from someone if you need it. If not, look for something current-gen so that at the very least there’s an easy upgrade path.
If you’re going Linux, try to find a computer that doesn’t include Windows, since you’re paying extra for the license. For the GPU, AMD is usually the preferred choice for Linux builds since the drivers are open source and built into the kernel. I’d also recommend more RAM, but that’s something that can be upgraded later if it doesn’t fit into your current budget.
I have built my own PC in the past. That may be the best option again, though I was hoping to avoid it. It’s quite a lot of work. Given my priorities though, it may be the best option.
I concur with most of this, with one caveat. If you’re going with a Zen4 platform, make absolutely sure you choose a distro that lets you run kernel 6.5+, or else you’ll be having some issues. The main thing in the newer kernels for AMD and Zen4 is the amd-pstate management driver, and a number efficiency and compatibility drivers for things like caching and memory bus. The machine will run okay-ish without, but you’ll get some performance issues, and needless power ramping that just wastes power.
I can only get so excited about this, but it is upsetting that this project and KDE 6 with full Wayland support will only drop on 2024, probably middle year
Plasma 6 comes out February 2024, so you don’t have to wait until the middle of the year at least. Beta should still be this year if you’re in a hurry.
I recently bought an nvidia gpu and I won’t do it again. Forget nvidia and linux. They work together at this moment but very much meh. Proprietary driver and lots of little issues with games. Maybe those also surface with amd but I doubt it.
I would rather use an AMD graphics card over Nvidia on Linux, because of Nvidia’s attitude towards Linux. Other than that there’s not much to say I think, it’s usually the tiny details that are missing from product pages that can make an impact. There’s no mention of which wireless networking chip it uses for example.
That being said. Chances are really low you’ll run into any hardware that doesn’t work immediately without any drivers and if you do manage to run into issues, there are often workarounds. I’ve installed Linux on many devices, mostly laptops, and I’ve never had real problems.
Here you can see how ppl run this game, there is even a user claiming you have to first link your ea account and then launch the game to pass the blank screen.
I looked through these yesterday and I’ve tried several of these fixes with no luck. Is WINE a prerequisite to running The Sims 4 off of Steam (given that I’m using Proton for all Steam games)?
What I would try in your situation (I don’t have the game so I can just give ideas):
Firstly I would try to wait a lot of time after I click on play, idk 10 minutes (because of some ppl comments on proton db I’m inclining to believe this blank screen wait until some shader compilation.
Then I would relink my ea account with steam (if it is possible, usually is, unlink and then link again).
Then I would try to run it on 8.0-2 and 7.0x In order.
Then would I close steam and delete the wineprefix, (wineprefix is a C: disk emulation where wine will run this program) on steam folder there is a compatdata folder, inside it you should find the Id of your game, it is the number in the URL of the game in steam store.
Also, I would reboot my system if I had a recent update in the last two sessions, idk why but when I update me endevour sometimes I feel the next session a little unstable until I reboot two times.
Thanks for the really detailed explanation! This is a really nice overview for me.
I’ll try again to run the game on Steam on a few versions of Proton. If that doesn’t work, I might try relinking my accounts as another commenter suggested.
I’ve been trying to stick with Steam because Steam has been such a pleasant experience for me (besides some issues with NVIDIA but that’s not Steam’s fault) but I might have to take a look at Lutris if none of the other fixes work. Thanks for the recommendation, though!
I was seeing 30-40% performance loss in BG3 and the stutters were too frequent to play Apex Legends. After that I gave up on gaming on Linux. If I’m doing any dev work I use my Linux partition, but day to day I drive windows for gaming.
Ironically, I actually got better performance in Fedora than Win11, same machine, playing Monster Hunter World. I think in my case it was because of the background stuff running in Windows. I run Linux pretty bare.
I’m running AMD, not Nvidia, but I didnt notice much of any performance loss in the games I played during the brief time I had both Linux and Windows installed, before migrating fully to linux.
On games that worked well, at least. There was a couple games that didnt play great with proton at the time, that have long since been sorted out and run great.
hell, iirc, a couple games even ran better on linux.
I actually got better performance in BG3 with my Arch system compared to Windows. The game crashes to desktop every 10 minutes in windows and runs relatively stable in Linux.
Were you using the Vulkan renderer after Patch 2? There’s a massive performance regression that got introduced with that Patch. DX11 still works fine tho.
the stutters were too frequent to play Apex Legends
This should be fixed after graphics pipeline library support was added to both Nvidia and AMD. If you tried it before that, it was indeed a stuttery mess. It is dramatically better now.
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