What would you reccomend/use for an alienware laptop m17r5 with amdcpu (idr) and gpu 6850mxt. Idc about adjusting the keyboard lights, I changed it once and never touched it again. I play games like cities skyline, noita, etc. and some vr stuff rarely like vtolvr and warthunder. I use blender and houdinifx.
I’ve seen PopOs reccomended for Blender users but I think thats because it comes with a lot of stuff you need for Nvidia, which isn’t relevant to me with an all amd setup.

Cachyos seems to be the move for best performance with rendering and simulating, was wondering about other options I have since I dont need to worry about nvidia drivers.

I dont like the idea of using ubuntu because of snap packages, but its not a big deal.

While I like tinkering, I do want it to be relatively stable, not suprising me with issues when I need it.

Currently Interested in: CachyOs Debian (leaning towards here if I go the stable route) EndeavorOs Mint (seems popular, is it just simplified?)

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t touched anything related to swap or memory managment. They said they don’t ship with a swap partition or file. I figured the devs must know best.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it uses only ram swap by default. If you aren’t going over a ton, it shouldn’t matter.

      I just have weird workloads that spike memory usage a ton for short times, so I have to go out to my nvme.