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amelia
oh yeah how's Intel Arc on Linux now?
oh yeah how
's Intel Arc on Linux now
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A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:27 PM
i
've been considering upgrading to Arc
Z
Zeglius
•
7/21/24, 6:27 PM
Yeah basically
A
amelia
oh yeah how's Intel Arc on Linux now?
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
tried a few months back on Bazzite
-Deck and the only issue i had is that Proton and hardware accelerated raytracing doesnt exist yet
Z
Zeglius
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
Though not sure if there is a way to apply the same rule to multiple matching app
/window names
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
RT seems to be locked to linux native vulkan
E
Ellis
tried a few months back on Bazzite-Deck and the only issue i had is that Proton ...
A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
wait so Proton doesn
't work on Arc
?
A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
oh
Z
Zeglius
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
Probably there is
, but never tried by myself
A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
yeah i don
't care about raytracing lmao
A
amelia
wait so Proton doesn't work on Arc?
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
RT doesnt work on Proton with arc
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:28 PM
thats the ONLY thing ive found
A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:29 PM
i
'm getting the A580 or A750 in the near future once my 1650 starts to struggle
(it will
)
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:29 PM
i cant say i ran into any other issues
A
amelia
i'm getting the A580 or A750 in the near future once my 1650 starts to struggle ...
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:29 PM
idk where you can buy but in germany the sparkle a750 is cheaper than the sparkle a580
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:29 PM
and as far as my personal intel
(pun intended
) goes
, sparkle is the best AIB so far
Z
Zeglius
•
7/21/24, 6:30 PM
Glad to help
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:30 PM
but yeah i
've been running Bazzite
-KDE for a while now on my main workstation rig
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:30 PM
trying the occasional game
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:30 PM
mostly doing hardware acceleration outside of games
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:30 PM
i dont really run into any quirks other than pytorch requiring a specific intel library
A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:32 PM
i
'm tempted to get a new M
.2 SSD to dualboot
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:32 PM
i cannot speak for arc on windows
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:32 PM
for that you
'd need to look at the most recent GN video probably
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:32 PM
and i
'll say
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:32 PM
for CAD nvidia probably still wins
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:36 PM
thank you anyway rei
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:36 PM
likely getting the stadia controller for my ever growing collection
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:38 PM
true
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:39 PM
i can recommend not using windows at all more
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:39 PM
but if you must you must
E
Ellis
i can recommend not using windows at all more
A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:39 PM
if Affinity Photo
/Designer get ported to Linux i
'm switching
A
amelia
if Affinity Photo/Designer get ported to Linux i'm switching
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:40 PM
i want apple for those things tbh
E
Ellis
•
7/21/24, 6:40 PM
mac mini to remote into seems like a great idea
A
amelia
OP
•
7/21/24, 6:42 PM
i just installed the 6 month free trial
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 6:56 PM
from what ive seen affinity is a bit more willing to run in wine despite the lack of resources put into compatibility
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 6:57 PM
hopefully there
's going to be a push to make that work at some point
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 6:57 PM
:
^
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:00 PM
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:02 PM
tbh like i wouldn
't be coping about that as hard if the gimp devteam were to show they
'd be ok with inviting more workpower for it
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:03 PM
but it seems that even changing the name from an awful innuendo is next to impossible
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:03 PM
:
/
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:03 PM
like compared to krita and blender
, gimp devs seem to be actively defensive about the current state of things
H
halva
catalyst drivers are absolutely the biggest piece of dogshit there has ever been
S
SoftwareSlicer
•
7/21/24, 7:04 PM
They haven
't used catalyst drivers since like 2015 though
? Personally I haven
't had any issues with my Rx 470 or my 6650xt both on windows and Linux
. Maybe they sucked back then tho
? lol
K
Kasher_CS
•
7/21/24, 7:05 PM
Gimp is like CinePaint I think
S
SoftwareSlicer
They haven't used catalyst drivers since like 2015 though? Personally I haven't ...
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:06 PM
well yeah
, im just saying old amd drivers were dogshit lol
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:06 PM
like anybody who
's ever had the misfortune of interacting with catalyst will agree
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:08 PM
which
, funnily enough
, applies to windows and linux both
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:09 PM
they were just all around horrible on all platforms
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:10 PM
navi were already on the new driver architecture
H
halva
•
7/21/24, 7:10 PM
it was just relatively new and unstable because of that
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