Amongussussyballs100

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[–] Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How well does the M1 chip keep up? What size models are you running with it? Interested in getting an M1 laptop and I am curious.

[–] Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I cannot speak for this card itself, but moving from Nvidia to AMD made my life so much easier. Wayland works a treat, and updates never leave me with a black screen from silly diver issues. However anything for local llms is a massive pain in the ass to use compared to Nvdias cuda, rocm is quite half-baked.

[–] Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pixels second hand are decently cheap from my experience

 

Running EndeavourOS and found a few games that have had some issues on linux, that I have found to be pretty much unfixable.

Unfortunately that would mean using a windows dualboot, and I really don't want windows on this laptop.

Would there be a way to run a windows VM with passing through the dgpu (AMD RX 6700m GPU), BUT able to use the dgpu when the VM is powered off? Unless I'm misunderstanding the guides, the gpu would be "locked" to the VM, and that would be unacceptable as I would mostly game on the host OS.

This is probably a given but the laptop does have integrated graphics as well (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H).

Any potential help would be appreciated, thanks!

[–] Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do not like Apple as a company and would never buy direct. This one is second-hand and much cheaper than a framework. I would definitely buy a framework if that was an option.

[–] Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would not even consider it if it was 8GB, but this one is 16GB with 512gb of storage. It is a decent deal for what it is, and I've been looking for a decently powerful arm machine for awhile.

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M1 Macbook Air (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Was looking at getting a macbook air with an m1 chip in it and running Asahi Linux on it. My question is how viable is it for daily life? E.g. browsing, torrenting, uni notes ect. Would it be equivalent to a regular x86 laptop running Linux? Or would I be missing useful features?

Edit: Another question is how it holds up against newer AMD laptops, as it is 3-4 years old at this point.

 

Looking for a Lemmy client for my desktop, archlinux. Was hoping for a good community recommendation and preferably open source.

 

Been running endeavor OS on my MSI delta 15 (all AMD with no nvidia card) with KDE and it switches between integrated and dgpu like it should. However after installing gnome and using it for a bit I noticed that it was always having the dgpu idling. This basically cuts my battery life in half, and making it less than desirable. I could not find much about it online so I'm presuming its some sort of user error. I do use it for gaming a bit so would prefer a solution that does not involve completely killing the dgpu.

Edit: the issue turned out to be a mullvad service using the dgpu. This was found by looking in nvtop and checking what process is using GPU 0, and resolved by going to /opt/Mullvad VPN/mullvad-vpn and adding --disable-gpu.

[–] Amongussussyballs100@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This looks like an interesting project. Can the vpn container only route traffic that are in other containers, or can regular applications get their traffic routed by the vpn container too?

 

I see Docker mentioned every other thread and was wondering how useful it is for non development things, and if so what they are.