| Oh my. This person didn't even get Ubuntu working properly and simply gave up to... use Windows? Instead of macOS? Because they couldn't get their setup straight on Linux? I don't know what's more frustrating: Reading through this nonsense or seeing it got upvotes. Even the hardware selection makes no sense at all, with no component but the non-functional GPU benefiting from the X570. The selected SSD is Gen3 and the CPU is a lower-end Ryzen where there's practically no difference between e.g. a X470 mainboard compared to the X570, when overclocked. Also overclocking is probably not what the author intended to do anyway, since there's no info on the cooling whatsoever, making statements like this even appear even more uneducated: > While portability is definitely a problem with desktops, they also have some cool advantages like:
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> - They don’t overheat Clearly the author followed an "let me get the flashiest stuff that is available on Amazon right now"-approach and didn't actually take the time and effort to put together components that actually make sense. For example, it would have taken literally a single quick search on the search engine of your choice to find at least one Phoronix post about a more recent AMD Radeon RX model that runs perfectly fine under Linux. Not to mention that "StarCraft II, Tomb Raider, Diablo III, etc" (titles that were release ~2010) don't even need a dedicated GPU and would run just fine (>30fps) on a AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU. In fact, this whole computer could have been a $700 AMD NUC (see "Aspen") and would have been perfectly fine for the workload described by the author and actually run a smooth Linux experience. Linux is not bad at hardware, it's you that's bad at planning and implementing a solution! --- This comment was written on a modern Gentoo Linux Ryzen 9 machine with a flawless Wayland setup and perfectly fine 3D hardware acceleration on an AMD GPU. |