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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

My laptop is running out of storage space and I don't have anything I can remove anymore to increase it by much, so I'm thinking about building a pc. I'd also like to find a better gpu for doing video editing.

It will be the first one I've built, so I don't really know what I need. Also, does it matter for compatibility for Linux whether I go with AMD or Intel?

The high end of what I want to use it for is video editing with Kdenlive or Davinci Resolve, some modeling and animation in Blender, and some light gaming, like Minecraft or TUNIC.

I figure one of these guides might be useful, but I don't really know which.

Is there anything else I should know for setting up a PC to run Linux?

Edit: Maybe these guides from Logical Increments can help actually.

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[-] penquin@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

If you're using davinci resolve then you'll need an Nvidia GPU for nvenc to work. Otherwise, I'd say go all AMD like I did with my current and first PC, too. Fuck Nvidia even though a lot of people say it's better now, but I have Nvidia PTSD and will never buy their shit. I have a Ryzen 7 5700G that comes with a built in GPU and a friend of mine gave me an old ass RX580 GPU that has been doing just fine for two 4k monitors. If you can give up davinci resolve or work with it halfassed, then all AMD is amazing. It's basically plug N play.

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

I agree with you on the 580, although I got mine new and use it with 2 1080P monitors. I do wonder if ROCm works any better on newer cards, but I don't have my hopes up.

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

2 4k monitors have been working on all games. I do admit that some games have to be set to low settings, but in general, I'm have a blast What's ROCm? Lol

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

ROCm is basically AMD’s GPU compute system, like CUDA but worse but better because the card is actually usable for desktop stuff.

However, they only support it on specific distros, and they’re really weird about what cards they support. This should be changing soon - Debian’s been working on packaging it natively, and I think so has Fedora.

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