[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Joshua Boyd]

On 1/9/25 18:00, Phil Stracchino via rescue wrote:
> On 1/9/25 17:45, Joshua Boyd via rescue wrote:
>> I usually reboot when the nvidia drivers get updated by apt update and
>> various applications start failing because the some part of the loaded
>> libraries in the application don't match the version running in X11 or
>> Wayland. I reboot my NAS and VM machines much less frequently.
>
> Yeah, I have to reboot my workstation at every nVidia driver update 
> because I use AlacriTTY for some purposes in which FULLY WORKING 
> Unicode support matters.  It gets shirty when the nVidia driver 
> version installed on disk and running in the kernel are different.


I tried putting together a computer with a Radeon RX5700, but I'm not 
entirely happy with its support under linux.  I was thinking of 
upgrading to a newer RX7600, but I since found out there is a bug in 
resolution support in their video encoder hardware where it must do 
1920x1088 instead of 1920x1080.   That is no good.

What I'd like to try next is getting a PC new enough to have proper 
Rebar BIOS support and then using an Intel GPU. I think I will sometimes 
miss Nvidia, but I also think that maybe I can get RDP to a machine with 
Nvidia to work well enough.  As it is, when I need Photoshop, Resolve, 
or Fusion 360, I RDP to a Windows machine with NVidia graphics, and RDP 
seems to do hardware rendering and then hardware video encoding very 
well with low latency (I do recall having to fiddle around with some 
settings in Windows to get this working correctly).  Reportedly Nvidia 
and Intel also both do game streaming very well via sunshine/moonlight 
or Steam streaming but I haven't tried that.

Pre Xe/ARC Intel graphics has served me well for machines where I don't 
game, run blender, run Resolve, or run CUDA stuff for a long time.  The 
intel graphics in an i7-8700 does a pretty good job with Fusion 360 
under windows as well.  Xe/ARC are supposed to be much better, but I 
don't have anything new enough for that.