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Was anyone able to run 18.04 or 20.04 successfully on a relatively modern desktop spec (AMD Ryzen 9 3950X / Nvidia 2080 TI / 32GB RAM / Custom water cooling) an

Was anyone able to run 18.04 or 20.04 successfully on a relatively modern desktop spec (AMD Ryzen 9 3950X / Nvidia 2080 TI / 32GB RAM / Custom water cooling) and two displays? I'm thinking of upgrading my development machine and running ubuntu only and I'm looking for some hints as to what could go wrong.

orbifold 6y ago
Personally I won't upgrade until NVIDIA releases their next CUDA version officially for 20.04. Past experience leads me to believe that otherwise I can run into a few unpleasant surprises.
- LandR 6y ago
  A couple of weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 18.04, it took hours to get it working fine. I had to install the properitary NVidia drivers but it kept locking the entire machine, sometimes 30 seconds after booting, sometimes a few minutes. Took hours of restarting and trying to get the drivers installed before it would hang to get it stable. Since getting them installed it's been solid. I'd now like to upgrade to 20.04, but not if I need to go through the whole ordeal of racing to get drivers updated before the system crashes.
e12e 6y ago
It's at least easy to run live from USB, and see if anything pops out. Ed: i would probably go straight for 20.04 on a fresh install - but heed sibling comment about nvidia drivers. Might run fine on open source drivers until proprietary ones gets an update (fine, but slow).
patresh 6y ago
Running an i5 9600K / 2x Nvidia 2070 / 64GB RAM on 19.10 and I managed to get to a fairly stable configuration. The only pain point was and has always been Nvidia drivers and CUDA stability. I have yet to find a consistent way to install the driver and CUDA version you want and lock them. A couple of weeks ago I installed Wine which deleted my CUDA packages. For now it's stable enough for a few months until I need to reinstall or tinker with something but maybe someone has suggestions for improving stability.
cephalization 6y ago
I've been running the last "nightly" release or whatever it is of 20.04 since Apr 20 on the same specs you list (3900x instead of 3950x). No problems so far on my ultrawide 3440x1400 display or with the proprietary nvidia driver. Just choose the 'safe' graphics option on boot of the live usb.
non-entity 6y ago
I've been running Ubuntu 19.10 on a Ryzen 3900X / Nvidia RYX 2070S / 64GB RAM, so close enough I suppose. The biggest issue I can remember was weird issues with the graphics drivers a few times. Not quite sure exactly how it happened, but apparently I had a pretty wonky installion at first. I uninstalled and installed the nvidia drivers through `apt`. Other than that, I have an unsolved problem of random, occasionally reboots, mostly which conveniently happen when I'm away from the PC. Everything goes back to normal after rebooting and it usually doesnt do it again for a while. I havent managed to solve this, but I'm assuming it's a rather localized problem.
013a 6y ago
The overall experience is fantastic. It ends up being little edge-case things that have weird behavior. For me; my Razer Nari wireless headphones just don't work. They're not bluetooth; they have their own low-latency USB receiver, and thus their own Razer-supplied drivers, which are not available on Linux. There's been some effort toward getting Razer products working better in Linux, but (last I ran Ubuntu, a few months ago) their headphones are not there yet. You just have to try it out and see what works, see what doesn't. Chances are, it'll work fantastically for you.
greggyb 6y ago
Running 18.04 on a Threadripper 3970x. My GPU is an older Radeon RX550. I have no issues except for a driver issue for the audio chip on my mobo (Gigabyte Aorus Master TRX40) that seems to only affect optical audio out. Cooling solution, RAM, and monitors aren't things that will have OS compatibility issues.

orbifold 6y ago

Personally I won't upgrade until NVIDIA releases their next CUDA version officially for 20.04. Past experience leads me to believe that otherwise I can run into a few unpleasant surprises.

LandR 6y ago
A couple of weeks ago I installed Ubuntu 18.04, it took hours to get it working fine. I had to install the properitary NVidia drivers but it kept locking the entire machine, sometimes 30 seconds after booting, sometimes a few minutes. Took hours of restarting and trying to get the drivers installed before it would hang to get it stable. Since getting them installed it's been solid. I'd now like to upgrade to 20.04, but not if I need to go through the whole ordeal of racing to get drivers updated before the system crashes.

e12e 6y ago

It's at least easy to run live from USB, and see if anything pops out. Ed: i would probably go straight for 20.04 on a fresh install - but heed sibling comment about nvidia drivers. Might run fine on open source drivers until proprietary ones gets an update (fine, but slow).

patresh 6y ago

Running an i5 9600K / 2x Nvidia 2070 / 64GB RAM on 19.10 and I managed to get to a fairly stable configuration. The only pain point was and has always been Nvidia drivers and CUDA stability. I have yet to find a consistent way to install the driver and CUDA version you want and lock them. A couple of weeks ago I installed Wine which deleted my CUDA packages. For now it's stable enough for a few months until I need to reinstall or tinker with something but maybe someone has suggestions for improving stability.

cephalization 6y ago

I've been running the last "nightly" release or whatever it is of 20.04 since Apr 20 on the same specs you list (3900x instead of 3950x). No problems so far on my ultrawide 3440x1400 display or with the proprietary nvidia driver. Just choose the 'safe' graphics option on boot of the live usb.

non-entity 6y ago

I've been running Ubuntu 19.10 on a Ryzen 3900X / Nvidia RYX 2070S / 64GB RAM, so close enough I suppose. The biggest issue I can remember was weird issues with the graphics drivers a few times. Not quite sure exactly how it happened, but apparently I had a pretty wonky installion at first. I uninstalled and installed the nvidia drivers through `apt`. Other than that, I have an unsolved problem of random, occasionally reboots, mostly which conveniently happen when I'm away from the PC. Everything goes back to normal after rebooting and it usually doesnt do it again for a while. I havent managed to solve this, but I'm assuming it's a rather localized problem.

013a 6y ago

The overall experience is fantastic. It ends up being little edge-case things that have weird behavior. For me; my Razer Nari wireless headphones just don't work. They're not bluetooth; they have their own low-latency USB receiver, and thus their own Razer-supplied drivers, which are not available on Linux. There's been some effort toward getting Razer products working better in Linux, but (last I ran Ubuntu, a few months ago) their headphones are not there yet. You just have to try it out and see what works, see what doesn't. Chances are, it'll work fantastically for you.

greggyb 6y ago

Running 18.04 on a Threadripper 3970x. My GPU is an older Radeon RX550. I have no issues except for a driver issue for the audio chip on my mobo (Gigabyte Aorus Master TRX40) that seems to only affect optical audio out. Cooling solution, RAM, and monitors aren't things that will have OS compatibility issues.