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The talk is that the Core Ultra 9 285K works better with Linux than Windows. What's your experience? And how well does it work with Proton?

I'm looking into buying a new system and I wonder which of all the mainboard manufacturers you recommend for Linux in general and gaming in particular? Which ones have the best Linux driver support and which ones publish open source drivers? Are AMD or Intel chipsets preferred?

Also general best bang for the buck recommendations are appreciated!

And yes, I have googled this and I have some ideas, but I'm interested in what my fellow Lemmies think. And I also want this information to be here on Lemmy instead of Reddit or AI generated blogs. If you feel offended by this, you're totally free to not reply and also down vote this post.

This is related to my previous question about AM5. Turns out 2 8x lane GPUs on AM5 might be an option after all.

So my question: Does a 16x lane PCIe GPU always support x8 lanes as well? (Like a Radeon RX 7900 XTX or something bigger and better from the future.)

Hello!

I'm looking into buying a system for running inference with small to medium size LLM models. I wonder, is there any AM5 CPU + Chipset combination that supports 2x PCIe 16x with all lanes connected directly to the CPU? From what I've gathered my understanding is that there is no such configuration because the Ryzen 7000/9000 only have 24 PCIe lanes at best. This means I have to go for a Threadripper configuration, which is much more expensive. (The ROCm mGPU documentation states that all lanes shall be connected directly to the CPU.)

It's possible that I can manage running two GPUs with 8x lanes, but it's for sure not optimal..

But the thing is, it is quite hard for me to navigate the AMD website and the websites of various motherboard producers. I might very well be wrong.

So again: Is there any AM5 CPU + chipset combination that supports 2x PCIe 16x with all lanes connected directly to the CPU?

It is clear that the signal to noise ratio of the WWW is getting worse. It's much harder to find good content when using a good old search engine. And if it's good it is usually hosted on Reddit or Stackexchange.

So remember, even if it's easy too Google something (well, it isn't nowadays), we want to create a fediverse of good content that helps people (I hope). So, it's always better to write a real answer if you have the time and energy. Please help boost the SNR and reverse the AI fueled information degradation loop.

Good FOSS software and reliable service providers? Etc.

Howdy!

I recently started using LibreWolf (because there is no good Firefox package for Guix ATM). However, when I tried to install my standard extensions, I was redirected to the Mozzarella web page. I thought "fine, I'm a good GNU citizen" and installed a few extensions. But soon I realized that the were seriously outdated and also dysfunctional. For example, the Bitwarden extension is from July 2023.

Shouldn't LibreWolf stop sending users to Mozzarella if it's a dead project hosting outdated extensions, considering all the security issues that implies?

The Nato chief is saying that North Korea is getting access to Russian missile and nuclear technology, in exchange for troops. If this is true, should South Korea launch a preemptive attack on North Korea before these new technologies are properly integrated and utilized?

What does this mean? Have they hacked a Matrix server, a client, the protocol, or is there some other underground chat-app called MATRIX?