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I've long avoided "switchable graphics", for this reason. The complexity breeds issues. Be happy with just intel graphics, or go for an AMD/radeon, to improve y

I've long avoided "switchable graphics", for this reason. The complexity breeds issues. Be happy with just intel graphics, or go for an AMD/radeon, to improve your chances of not running into bugs/incompatibilities. Modern graphics are just such a monster of complexity, change, variety, secrecy, etc. (I'm going to venture a guess that the "kernel update [can] render the system unbootable" is due to nvidia binary-blob driver needing some glue code to both update and recompile for new kernel versions ... it can work fine, usually, but for best experience, skip the hassle of nvidia on linux, or keep it as simple and vanilla as possible with a distro that takes care of it for you I guess.)

nxc18 6y ago
I didn't know Radeon was better with Linux. I'd like to turn my current device into a headless server and build a new PC specifically to run Ubuntu well. CUDA is a key use case for me though - I actually use quite a lot of software that depends on it and my understanding is I can't do that with AMD graphics. I'd also like to get in on the RTX 3080/3070 action and I think I might value that performance more than being able to run Linux natively.
- eska 6y ago
  I decided to ditch NVidia due to bad linux compatibility and went with an AMD. Had no issued whatsoever since then (half year). I was also surprised to see a Phoronix benchmark for Blender with many graphics cards and different GPU off loading libraries showing AMD doing well there too. I always thought I'll be compromising on performance there.
spdionis 6y ago
Except most laptops with a dedicated graphics card force you to use both. The ones that rely fully on the the dedicated video card are high end and usually have different disadvantages (weight, battery time).
- Yetanfou 6y ago
  ...or older, like my Thinkpad T42p with a 'Mobility FireGL T2' (Radeon RV350). Other than some occasional AGP-related instability which seems to be hardware-related Xorg works fine on this machine.

nxc18 6y ago

I didn't know Radeon was better with Linux. I'd like to turn my current device into a headless server and build a new PC specifically to run Ubuntu well. CUDA is a key use case for me though - I actually use quite a lot of software that depends on it and my understanding is I can't do that with AMD graphics. I'd also like to get in on the RTX 3080/3070 action and I think I might value that performance more than being able to run Linux natively.

eska 6y ago
I decided to ditch NVidia due to bad linux compatibility and went with an AMD. Had no issued whatsoever since then (half year). I was also surprised to see a Phoronix benchmark for Blender with many graphics cards and different GPU off loading libraries showing AMD doing well there too. I always thought I'll be compromising on performance there.

spdionis 6y ago

Except most laptops with a dedicated graphics card force you to use both. The ones that rely fully on the the dedicated video card are high end and usually have different disadvantages (weight, battery time).

Yetanfou 6y ago
...or older, like my Thinkpad T42p with a 'Mobility FireGL T2' (Radeon RV350). Other than some occasional AGP-related instability which seems to be hardware-related Xorg works fine on this machine.