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Agree mostly, but the best option under Linux seems to be Intel graphics (or at least was until a few years ago) - arguably not beefy enough for some things, but regarding supported features, stability and power consumption the best supported mainstream gpu in the Linux kernel.

Intel simply has no closed source driver for Linux. New hardware is often supported/merged before it is even sold. AMD is trying the same, but not there yet.



The Intel i915 driver STILL crashes my system regularly even on the latest kernels... I have a skylake i5-2600k and the iGPU is absolute dogshit. Not sure if it's a hardware or driver issue but it still hasn't been sorted out after all these years.

Typically the entire system will freeze (speakers will continue to play whatever was in the short audio buffer - pretty awful) for 10-15s, then the driver will detect the hang and reboot the iGPU. Happens much more frequently (every ~15m) when using more graphically intense programs. I can't use blender because sometimes when it hangs it won't reset and requires a full reboot.

There are dozens of issues about it and related problems in Intel's drm fork of the kernel [0]. I (finally) posted a bug report about it months ago since it seemed to have gotten worse after 5.4 but never heard back from them.

All this to say - be wary of Intel graphics on linux.

[0] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues


Ever since kernel 5.7 was released my i7-5500 will not boot. (Well it will boot with “nomodeset” option but then X doesn’t work so not very useful.) It’s still not fixed in 5.9.


Wouldn't even say that, I've experienced regressions/bugs on intel drivers for laptops a few times.

In general, it's kind of a crapshoot no matter which way you go, and expect pain if the gpu chipset is less than a year old.




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