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Before non-Linux people jump to conclusions from your reply: Intel GPUs work just as good (if not better) as in Windows. They are the best solution for a non-ga
by twobat 7y ago
Before non-Linux people jump to conclusions from your reply: Intel GPUs work just as good (if not better) as in Windows. They are the best solution for a non-gaming laptop.
- pedrocr 7y agoThe drivers are great as I mentioned, probably better than the Windows ones indeed. But the hardware is slow. Non-starter for gaming and for normal graphics they're also slow. Browsers are now becoming GPU accelerated and screen sizes larger. Driving the modern web at 4K is non-trivial.
- KingMachiavelli 7y agoModern Intel iGPUs are more than enough for browser acceleration. I mean the bigger issue is that that acceleration is most often disabled on Linux at least for chromium based browsers.
- pedrocr 7y agoIt's even worse for Firefox, although hopefully improving soon. You can definitely get away with an Intel GPU for general usage. We're talking about developer laptops though and there's definitely space for more GPU performance even if you're not doing gaming or ML. I've switched to a tiling WM in large part to reduce the GPU workload for example.
- FeistySkink 7y agoI have a Thinkpad with an Intel GPU and it works just fine in Firefox on Linux with Gnome driving a 4K screen. This is my main development setup. Intel GPUs have been more than enough for non-gaming needs for years. I've no idea what these complaints are about. I don't do web development though. I would like my next setup to be AMD based though.
- pedrocr 7y agoGNOME experiences are very mixed for some reason. In my T460s with a 1440p screen GNOME was too slow. After tweaking all sorts of things I just switched to a tiling WM (sway). Part of that is software but there are plenty of things where you want the extra GPU. Compared to 10 years ago it's a first-world problem though, I agree.
- FeistySkink 7y agoGnome 3.34 has some nice performance improvements. Maybe give it a shot.
- pedrocr 7y agoI've read about those. But now that I've put in the investment to learn and adapt a tiling setup for my needs I won't be going back any time soon.
- LukeShu 7y agoMy Intel 5500 drives Firefox at 4K just fine (actually, 6.6K because render at a multiple of 96 DPI, then xrandr to scale down, since GDK_SCALE only supports integers). Driving Zoom at that resolution tends to be painful though...