15 Dec
2017
15 Dec
'17
12:21 a.m.
On December 14, 2017 12:32:34 PM HST, Roberto <roberto(a)zenvoid.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:11:49AM +0100, David
Kastrup wrote:
Well, my laptop (System76) and my wife's (Asus) both have Intel GPU and work. Only
issue on her laptop is the onboard display rez is lower than the 1920HD external display
also attached to it and Ubuntu apparently can only run each display at identical
resolutions. She dualboots Windows 10, which has no problem running them each at different
optimal resolutions.
My desktop, with AMD CPU and Radeon onboard (MSI mobo IIRC), also works fine.
Both my laptop and the desktop run KXStudio RT kernels. My wife's laptop runs stock
Ubuntu 16.04LTS.
I do no gaming, so don't presently need the horsepower of any modern GPU. Although
going to a 4K setup someday will probably require it.
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At least with the kind of laptops I work with
(these days, mostly
Thinkpads), the troublefree graphics were onboard Intel. No problem
either suspending or hibernating, no "not-yet-serviced" or
"no-longer-serviced" problems, no binary blobs, no crashes, no black
screen of graphics death (Nvidia on Thinkpad T61), no gradual
deterioration until death (AMD on mainboard I think), no loss of
support
(AMD on external card I think), no crashes for
accelerated desktop.
Probably no useful gaming performance either, but then I wouldn't
know.
I don't know whether Intel still deals in onboard graphics and
particularly not in relation to desktop computers.
But at least with laptops and over about a decade of experience,
they
have by far been the least problematic with Linux
for me. If you
don't
need the kind of rendering performance graphics
cards specialize in,
don't pay the price in stability and non-support the market leaders
exact.
For what is worth, my experience is exactly the same, my 3 most recent
laptops (Samsung, Asus and Vant) have integrated Intel GPU and now I'm
sure I won't bother with NVidia and Ati/Amd proprietary drivers
anymore,
nor trying to fight with free drivers to achieve correct power
consumption.