Quoting: JSVRamirez

Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt's cool, but at that point why "replace"? Why not just have a desktop computer?

Perhaps you have more than one desk that you work at, or no regular desk.

Something like this would be perfect for my wife's work machine. She is an artist and does a lot of graphic design for proofs/mockups of crafted products. While, during the day, she works at a desk, in the late afternoons and evenings, she works from the sofa.

4 kilos is not something you want balance on your lap while relaxing on a sofa. This is something that has to sit firmly on a desk. It is actually heavier than my ITX board in its 20x20x30cm case. Granted, it comes with a display, but still...

(posted from my Lenovo Thinkpad weighing 1.3 kilos resting on my legs.)

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Quoting: The_Aquabat

Quoting: ShmerlLess hardware bugs and such.

I keep hearing about Navi being buggy, I haven't find bugs on my navi. Maybe I hit the silicon lottery? is there any documentation about the bugs? are there any workarounds?

That was the one I suffered most from
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/929 [External Link]

Disappeared with 5.7.x but for some it seems to prevail.

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Quoting: damarrinQuite, roughly one year after the cards came out.

I recently bought a Ryzen 3xxx laptop. A CPU from one year ago. It was unstable in Mint 20, I had to go hunting for newer kernels.

Ryzen 4xxx just came out. You need to go hunting for newest kernels to make it work.

Whenever AMD comes out with something more radically new months of hurt await again.

I bought a X13 laptop with a 4750U Pro a few weeks ago. Naturally I need a kernel that already knows about this hardware to allow accelerated graphics. So yes, I have to "hunt" for a recent kernel (i.e. download it from the mainline repos). Bottom line: everything including all peripherals works flawlessly. I don't know, but will Tiger Lake work on kernels from a year ago?

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Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: damarrinNo they aren’t.

Care to elaborate?

I don't need to: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/4128

Since I am the expert on the topic - the problem is (and for some it still seems to prevail) - the dual screen support. It was also about the lack of OpenCL. Things which might be moot for gamers anyway. I also said:

On the bright side: Doing some Vulkan benchmarks yielded spectacular frame rates when compared to my previous GTX1060:

• War Thunder saw a 70% increase (this game works now more stable with Vulkan than OpenGL, albeit far from flawless)


• Shadow of Mordor went from 90 FPS to 146


• Talos Principle exploded from 60 FPS to 280

I do have an RX5700 and a 5500X (paired with AMD CPUs) and since kernel 5.7.x I don't experience any notable issues anymore. (I do have a Windows partition for testing purposes and the AMD driver for Windows has some showstoppers up its sleeve.)
Today I consider the AMD drivers for Navi GPUs suitable for Linux gamers - if they are using a recent kernel.

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Quoting: damarrinNo they aren’t.

Care to elaborate?

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Quoting: medI've been out of the GPU-loop for about five years now, but are Linux AMD drivers good enough for gaming now? This was always a problem before?

My RX 5700 took its fair share of time to play nice with two displays (required kernel 5.7.x OR 5.3.x), but as far as gaming goes it has been quite smooth from the get go.

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Quoting: emphy

Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: emphyGreat; now we will likely also get lenovo bloat- and spyware for linux, including that one that gets reinstalled on a fresh os install ...

What would hinder you to re-install a pristine distribution on the machine? The same I did with my X13 I bought a few weeks ago. Took me 15 minutes to have the machine up and running.

Would depend on whether there is some sort of vulnerability/feature that could be abused by lenovo, like they did with the "Windows Platform Binary Table" to have the bios install adware on fresh windows installs.

When was that? Which models? (Hardly the "pro" X or T series I assume.) What did the adware advertise? (Would they advertise Linux software?)

That said, they would be in for a lot of work. Which distro should this effort target? Which desktop environment? And we haven't even talked about the deployment... This is my third Lenovo laptop - 2 came without Windows and got an Ubuntu, a third one came with then Windows 7 - they were all, well, boring. Pretty much everything worked out of the box.

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Quoting: emphyGreat; now we will likely also get lenovo bloat- and spyware for linux, including that one that gets reinstalled on a fresh os install ...

What would hinder you to re-install a pristine distribution on the machine? The same I did with my X13 I bought a few weeks ago. Took me 15 minutes to have the machine up and running.

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Built myself a rather compact barebone system with a dual slot AMD GPU and CPU, SFX power supply. It's about as portable as this behemoth - in fact it's actually even lighter (and yes it comes without display, but still 4 kilos plus excluding PSU...)

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Quoting: NanobangIs iwd even open source?

Of course it is. And it has been in your repositories for quite some time already. It's just not installed as default. You can find more about here for example

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/wireless/iwd.git/about/ [External Link]

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