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I see the raise of popularity of Linux laptops so the hardware compatibility is ready out of the box. However I wonder how would I build PC right know that has budget - high end specification. For now I’m thinking

  • Case: does not matter
  • Fans: does not matter
  • PSU: does not matter
  • RAM: does not matter I guess?
  • Disks: does not matter I guess?
  • CPU: AMD / Intel - does not matter but I would prefer AMD
  • GPU: AMD / Intel / Nvidia - for gaming and Wayland - AMD, for AI, ML, CUDA and other first supported technologies - Nvidia.

And now the most confusing part for me - motherboard… Is there even some coreboot or libreboot motherboard for PC that supports “high end” hardware?

Let’s just say also a purpose of this Linux PC. Choose any of these

  1. Blender 3D Animation rendering
  2. Gaming
  3. Local LLM running

If you have some good resources on this also let me know.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    32·
    14 hours ago

    You need to use intel/nvidia.

    You might be able to get away with amd instead of intel, but nvenc and cuda support is a non negotiable thing for your use case.

    You will not encounter any problems as long as you don’t run Wayland.

    Any motherboard is fine. You don’t need coreboot support to run Linux.

    • Possibly linuxEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      You can absolutely use an AMD card for LLMs. You can even use the CPU if you don’t mind it being slower.

      If this person is a AI researcher doing lots of LLM work it might be different but somehow I think they are just a casual user that asks questions

    • Matty_r@programming.dev
      7·
      13 hours ago

      Just a point on Wayland - I have an nvidia GPU and have been on Wayland for a couple months now (KDE Plasma), and its been entirely problem free and I actually forgot I switched from X11 to Wayland.

      Blender has support for Wayland now too.

      I do a lot of gaming and development - ever since Nvidia made those changes for Wayland support and KDE added that explicit sync stuff its been great. Before all of that though I had heaps of issues with flickering and just general usability.

      Wayland actually fixed a number of issues for me, like stuttering when notifications appear, and jankyness in resizing windows.