driver support on linux

[OrangeTurtle]

i'm doing my first build, and i'm wondering how the driver support is on linux (what i'll want if drivers are supported) with ryzen 4000, geforce 30 series cards, and the rog strix x570-e motherboard. are the components going to work fine with good drivers, or should i just get windows?

[Duckson McQuack]

Doesn't even seem like you need linux

 

If you want to game just stick with W10

[OrangeTurtle]

Just now, Duckson McQuack said:

Doesn't even seem like you need linux

 

If you want to game just stick with W10

i don't want to have the "activate windows" watermark and i want more performance and privacy

 

[svmlegacy]

7 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

i'm doing my first build, and i'm wondering how the driver support is on linux (what i'll want if drivers are supported) with ryzen 4000, geforce 30 series cards, and the rog strix x570-e motherboard. are the components going to work fine with good drivers, or should i just get windows?

I mean... we don't even know what the support is for Windows yet.

[Duckson McQuack]

3 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

i don't want to have the "activate windows" watermark and i want more performance and privacy

 

w10 is inherently better for gaming than linux 

keys are $5 a pop

 

[BobVonBob]

Nobody knows what driver support for 30 series cards or ryzen 4000 will look like on Linux until they launch, but I recall the 20 series had some major hiccups and in my experience I've had nothing but problems with Nvidia drivers on Linux.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

i don't want to have the "activate windows" watermark and i want more performance and privacy

really give linux a shot on a vm or live disk first

 

 

For games, windows is normally much better

 

 

You can bay 100 bucks to activate windows and that won't be a iissue.

 

Drives should be fine for lots of x570 stuff, but your probably gonna want a newer distro, and gonna need nvidia drivers.

[OrangeTurtle]

Just now, lexusgamer05 said:

Wait for the new AMD cards as AMD has better Linux driver support. Nvidia is known to be a pain when it comes to Linux driver support, and AMD has no problems. Other than that, Ryzen works fine on Linux. Linus Torvalds even once said...

rtx 3070 is faster than 2080ti while costing at least half the price

[OrangeTurtle]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

really give linux a shot on a vm or live disk first

 

 

For games, windows is normally much better

 

 

You can bay 100 bucks to activate windows and that won't be a iissue.

 

Drives should be fine for lots of x570 stuff, but your probably gonna want a newer distro, and gonna need nvidia drivers.

is manjaro kde with some tweaks considered newer?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, DevTurtle said:

is manjaro kde with some tweaks considered newer?

its a rolling distro, so its pretty new, idk what its current kernel is though.

 

But id probably suggest something debian based like ubuntu for someone who is new to linux. There is a lot more community support and software for it.

[svmlegacy]

9 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

rtx 3070 is faster than 2080ti while costing at least half the price

> In RTX mode, which comes through DirectX, something exclusive to Microsoft.

> You'll need to wait for Vulcan Ray-Tracing to have any support for it in Linux

 

11 minutes ago, lexusgamer05 said:

Wait for the new AMD cards as AMD has better Linux driver support. Nvidia is known to be a pain when it comes to Linux driver support, and AMD has no problems. Other than that, Ryzen works fine on Linux. Linus Torvalds even once said...

Linus Torvalds comes from the Kernel's point of view. Nvidia drivers as provided by Nvidia aren't horrible. I use them.

AMD drivers on the other hand can be built into the kernel.

 

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not saying the 3000 series GPU's won't work in Linux OS's. But keep in mind cutting edge tech and Linux usually don't get along well, until everything's settled in.

[Guest]

44 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

i'm doing my first build, and i'm wondering how the driver support is on linux (what i'll want if drivers are supported) with ryzen 4000, geforce 30 series cards, and the rog strix x570-e motherboard. are the components going to work fine with good drivers, or should i just get windows?

Ryzen 4000 is unknown, If there are any major changes you will need to be on a relatively new Kernel. You would be looking at Arch, Manjaro with a updated kernel, maybe debian testing, maybe opensuse tumbleweed. I don't really keep up with distros anymore to know how new there packages are.

 

NVIDIA drivers are always finicky, the further away from Ubuntu you get the more problems you may run into. NVIDIA targets Ubuntu and RedHat.

Don't expect a day one driver for AMD or NVIDIA. 

 

37 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

is manjaro kde with some tweaks considered newer?

Yes, compared to Ubuntu, PopOS!, Mint, etc... Manjaro will be much newer.

 

29 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

its a rolling distro, so its pretty new, idk what its current kernel is though.

Our last install came with the same LTS kernel as Ubuntu. Manjaro has really been pulling away from Arch, enough so that it has started breaking compatibility with the AUR. They have also been working towards more snap stuff. Take what you will from that, but I have a feeling they are about to follow Ubuntu.

[OrangeTurtle]

5 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

Ryzen 4000 is unknown, If there are any major changes you will need to be on a relatively new Kernel. You would be looking at Arch, Manjaro with a updated kernel, maybe debian testing, maybe opensuse tumbleweed. I don't really keep up with distros anymore to know how new there packages are.

 

NVIDIA drivers are always finicky, the further away from Ubuntu you get the more problems you may run into. NVIDIA targets Ubuntu and RedHat.

Don't expect a day one driver for AMD or NVIDIA. 

 

Yes, compared to Ubuntu, PopOS!, Mint, etc... Manjaro will be much newer.

 

Our last install came with the same LTS kernel as Ubuntu. Manjaro has really been pulling away from Arch, enough so that it has started breaking compatibility with the AUR. They have also been working towards more snap stuff. Take what you will from that, but I have a feeling they are about to follow Ubuntu.

does kde neon work? it seems to be based on ubuntu 20.04 lts which seems relatively new

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

does kde neon work? it seems to be based on ubuntu 20.04 lts which seems relatively new

why not test it when you get the hardwre and see what distro works the best?

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, DevTurtle said:

does kde neon work? it seems to be based on ubuntu 20.04 lts which seems relatively new

KDE Neon is built on Ubuntu LTS. KDE Neon's only advantage is that they have a repo setup to deliver a up to date KDE experience maintained by the KDE Team, everything else will be the same as Ubuntu. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS while being relatively new, since it was recently released, is still way outdated compared to something like Arch or Manjaro. Ubuntu itself is outdated by design. Ubuntu targets stability and compatibility for workstations and businesses.

 

So if Ubuntu meets your needs KDE Neon should.

[Alexeygridnev1993]

Replace Nvidia with whatever top-tier AMD card there will be in a few months and you'll avoid a lot of dancing with a tambourine around the computer. Other than that, as long as you're not playing games with weird anti-cheat software, you'll be fine on Linux. As mentioned above, Manjaro or any derivative of Ubuntu will be good for gaming (I'm using Kubuntu).

I heavily doubt that Ryzen 4000 series will be so different from 3rd gen that you'll need a kernel patch to make it work better. Previously, the problem both on Windows and on Linux has been that the OS could assign threads of the same application to different CCXes, but now that's fixed.