[LAU] Christmas present for self.

[David W. Jones]

On December 14, 2017 12:32:34 PM HST, Roberto <roberto at zenvoid.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 12:11:49AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> > 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.

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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