I game through a passthrough setup, and while it does work just fine, there’s a not inconsiderable level of work that goes into getting to that point. If he just wants to play games he’s better off running Linux and his work stuff on a laptop and having windows on the desktop.
I agree, except if you're going to do anything AI or use passthrough. AMD are fine for rasterisation, ie games and rendering, but their AI framework is a hassle and in passthrough their GPUs are a lot more likely to code 43, and almost guaranteed to reset bug (meaning you have to reboot the whole machine to give the GPU back to the host). Nvidia on the other hand basically works out of the box for AI, and will pass through flawlessly (you may need to set your kvm to hidden state, but that's an easy fix).
I managed to get stable diffusion working on Ubuntu though it was incredibly difficult because it needed AMDs proprietary ROCM drivers and the documentation on getting it working was sparse. Its been so long since I did it though so I've mostly forgotten how I went about doing it. I do remember the main reason it wasn't working for me was apparently I needed to run SD as sudo the first time it ran for some reason.
I was interested in the passthrough stuff but the developments Steam and the wine team made with proton basically makes doing passthrough more trouble than its worth. I've enjoyed Cyberpunk through the lutris fshacks runner with no game crashing issues and a few other big title games like Yakuza 0 and Kiwamis. If you play multiplayer games then yeah you may still want to do passthrough.
This.
Oh don't worry. I'm acquainted with the black box of green hacker text. It's no different from learning any other language I'll be fine.
Will look into that. I have Tor too as a last resort because knowing Bongistan they'll probably try to get VPNs banned at some point too if things escalate. Thanks for the tip!
I have a HP Pavilion that is definitely older than 5 years. I also have a laptop that I bought early on this year that I've barely touched so I'll load Mint onto that one so if I mess anything up I've literally lost absolutely nothing.
I highly recommend you only visit "naughty" websites like this through TOR, not a VPN.
I do believe that's one of the main things defining the difference between RHEL and Ubuntu, where Ubuntu at least tries to support older software for a while. But even then it's not great. This is something that Windows does well, literally bending over backwards to ensure software is supported for a long time.
But what if you do if the containers break because of an update?
The whole point(theory) is that a container contains every dependency it needs to run. And really it seems to work most of the time.
