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Basically anything recent but not the latest components will work well. If you want hassle-free then going with amd everything is the most efficient IMO. I'm r

Basically anything recent but not the latest components will work well. If you want hassle-free then going with amd everything is the most efficient IMO. I'm running a ryzen 3600 and a radeon rx5700xt, and i've not had any driver issues, be it with x11 or wayland. I've been playing a bunch of games from my library but there are still some games that aren't compatible (for ex. Vermintide 2 has non-compatible anticheat) so i keep a spartan windows instal on a 128gb ssd for those and VR. VR is a non-starter on linux. That being said, nvidia has RT cores now, which can do very fast matrix multiplication which is advantageous for ML workloads (on top of a lot of ml work being optimized for cuda cores). Can't speak to their drivers but older cards should be safer, especially considering the 40 series hasn't been shown to be worth it over used 30 series.

musha68k 4y ago
Interesting point about VR. I guess the sets and controllers are married even more so to the Windows APIs and will incur stark penalty on immersion for even slightest lag (due to API translation)? A bummer for sure. I also honestly was leaning more towards buying a used RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 from one of the (ex) Ethereum miners. I actually played through Cyberpunk 2077 on Geforce Now "RTX 3080" and am definitely spoiled by real time RT and DLSS now.. The compression artifacts and occasional lags and packet loss did become grating after a while though (to me). Biggest issue with GFN though is lack of games (I still don't understand why they can't just support any game on any of their integrated marketplaces. I mean it's me buying them on those platforms then playing them through GFN instances). But I also gather here from multiple answers that AMD apparently should still be the choice on Linux. Maybe I need to wait a bit longer for them to catch up on the realtime RT and ML image reconstruction..
- smoldesu 4y ago
  I'm using a 3070 on Linux and it's usable with the latest GNOME/KDE versions on Wayland. If you're purely looking for a Linux gaming solution, Nvidia isn't a terrible choice now. If you want an all-in-one machine with the best support available, you'll probably want AMD or Intel hardware.
- themoonisachees 4y ago
  I think the VR limitations are more due to graphics. Controllers are just simple bluetooth devices with custom drivers, but graphics is understandably hell. Wayland can't understand how to handle my index being plugged in, and x11 fucks up in ways i didn't think possible. Hopefully valve is doing what i think they are doing, which is making the steam deck as a test for their hardware platform in order to make a standalone VR headset with a similar chip.
- account42 4y ago
  > Interesting point about VR. I guess the sets and controllers are married even more so to the Windows APIs and will incur stark penalty on immersion for even slightest lag (due to API translation)? Its mostly that Valve doesn't seem to be too interested in polishing VR on Linux. They ported SteamVR and eventually ported Alyx but neither has seen any significant update on Linux for ages. It all kinda works but ... not great. Other non-Valve headsets will probably have even more problems.

musha68k 4y ago

Interesting point about VR. I guess the sets and controllers are married even more so to the Windows APIs and will incur stark penalty on immersion for even slightest lag (due to API translation)? A bummer for sure. I also honestly was leaning more towards buying a used RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 from one of the (ex) Ethereum miners. I actually played through Cyberpunk 2077 on Geforce Now "RTX 3080" and am definitely spoiled by real time RT and DLSS now.. The compression artifacts and occasional lags and packet loss did become grating after a while though (to me). Biggest issue with GFN though is lack of games (I still don't understand why they can't just support any game on any of their integrated marketplaces. I mean it's me buying them on those platforms then playing them through GFN instances). But I also gather here from multiple answers that AMD apparently should still be the choice on Linux. Maybe I need to wait a bit longer for them to catch up on the realtime RT and ML image reconstruction..

smoldesu 4y ago
I'm using a 3070 on Linux and it's usable with the latest GNOME/KDE versions on Wayland. If you're purely looking for a Linux gaming solution, Nvidia isn't a terrible choice now. If you want an all-in-one machine with the best support available, you'll probably want AMD or Intel hardware.
themoonisachees 4y ago
I think the VR limitations are more due to graphics. Controllers are just simple bluetooth devices with custom drivers, but graphics is understandably hell. Wayland can't understand how to handle my index being plugged in, and x11 fucks up in ways i didn't think possible. Hopefully valve is doing what i think they are doing, which is making the steam deck as a test for their hardware platform in order to make a standalone VR headset with a similar chip.
account42 4y ago
> Interesting point about VR. I guess the sets and controllers are married even more so to the Windows APIs and will incur stark penalty on immersion for even slightest lag (due to API translation)? Its mostly that Valve doesn't seem to be too interested in polishing VR on Linux. They ported SteamVR and eventually ported Alyx but neither has seen any significant update on Linux for ages. It all kinda works but ... not great. Other non-Valve headsets will probably have even more problems.