Soldat56

Vulnerable... While you do things correctly and if it's only for pentesting why would you be vulnerable? Edit: You probably want it to run on VMware as I feel like they have the best support for guest addition tools. + Easy bridged connection.

Anyway using the open source drivers is fine if you don't want to dig into gaming.

I do understand Linux runs on absolutely anything. That's not the point. You're right about checking the Kernel an my installation media (USB Drive) used a 5.2 Linux Kernel Wich I checked. After upgrading the Kernel (post-installation) I do not experience any issues. BTW Nvidia didn't drop Linux support and I have the latest 443.7 driver.

I made this post for anybody wanting to install Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine on his computer and having issues with the install. I recently installed Eoan Ermine and had some speed issues on a fully potent setup : I7-8700K; GTX 1060 6GB; 16GB DDR4 RAM; 256GB Nvme SSD... Over all it is a pretty decent setup, while the graphics card is not really powerfull it is enough for Linux. OK, when you'll start installing Eoan Ermine, you will instantly notice a speed drop comparing to 19.04 or even 18.04. At first I thought it was because Ubuntu had become ressource-hungry... Nope I don't know the cause of this speed drop but I got two ways of fixing it: 1.Install 19.04 and then update to 19.10. Nothing extraordinary but still the easiest way. 2.When Creating the bootable media, you might want to create another partition, casper -rw for persistent storage. Even though it's empty It increased my install speed by 5-6 minutes. Wich is noticeable. Hope I helped you and don't hesitate to ask me for further details. Also if you have suggestions you are free to leave a comment.