debian’s cdn is crazy fast, the default apt setup in debian 13 chooses mirrors dynamically and it’s really good

who makes the thumbnails for phoronix? is this the same hdd that was in a previous one?

seems to me like you made up your own non standard terminology?

actually it seems like everything else posted by op is also slop, another user in my blocklist ig

good to know, I saw the ports too but I couldn’t definitively prove that it’s AI

is the weird white line thing a common feature of slop? I think it might be the first time I’ve recognised it

what’s with the weird white lines in the image?

would an ubuntu base support something as new as a 9800 well?

keyboard

This is a very advanced use case. Be warned.

Let’s first talk about the software you need. This determines the hardware you need to run it.

For the windows VM you need a few things:

• graphics accelerator (GPU)
• virtual display
• input devices
• audio output

To get the GPU, you probably want to pass through a GPU into the VM with iommu. When doing this, you still want your host OS (linux) to have a GPU as well, so you’ll need 2. Use the integrated one for linux, and the dedicated for windows. Make sure that the laptop display is connected internally to the integrated GPU, not dedicated. Otherwise your linux environment would be uninteractable.

Not sure if you can then use the dedicated GPU on linux when the VM isn’t running or not though. You can look this up probably.

Then, for the virtual display and input device, you want to use Looking Glass. It requires you to have a hardware GPU on both the VM and the host, but it allows you to have a latency free interface to the VM. It’s fucking great.

Audio really depends on your situation. If your motherboard’s builtin audio card is in the same IOMMU group as your dGPU, you’re fucked and you’ll need a USB DAC. That shouldn’t be the case though, it’s usually in your iGPU’s group.

Now for the hardware. From the above, you’ll need:

• 2 GPUs (1 for linux, 1 for windows)
• Mainboard firmware that supports IOMMU
• Audio NOT in the same IOMMU group as the windows GPU
• AMD/Intel GPU for linux, NVIDIA for windows as recommended by Looking Glass. I’ve personally had success with Intel for windows as well though.
• Your display must be connected to the linux GPU.

I’ve heard nvidia power management is a shitshow for laptops, I know someone that couldn’t get rtd3 power management to work on their 3000 series laptop gpu. that was on arch though, im not sure if Ubuntu has something set up already to handle that

purism librem 5 seems to have everything working https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Purism_Librem5_(purism-librem5)

first 3 I wouldn’t recommend to a newcomer, and aren’t support things like this mainly oriented towards enterprise and not consumers?

you can probably also run bsd and 9front :)

Linux is a volunteer project (mostly). There is no “support” like a commercial os, you’ll have to figure out your way around it yourself.

There are Linux User Groups (LUGs) around the world though, which are volunteer groups that help people with their Linux problems. Have a look at if you can find one around you

shit they exist?? tysm!

how did you configure it? iirc vgpus in Linux are pretty bad, virgl is pretty good but it doesn’t have a guest driver for windows

or you can model functional mechanical parts with blender like some masochist (definitely not me)

it’s not that deep bro

wireless cards are really cheap on aliexpress and the ones I’ve bought have been actual genuine parts. I recommend getting something like a Intel AX210 for normal use, or a card supported by ath9k if you want to mess around with wifi stuff

I would personally buy a new ssd for Linux, and keep the original windows drive somewhere else for safe keeping. That’s what I did when I migrated

However, you can transfer the entire ssd content including files, partitions, boot stuff to another disk (e.g. your hdd) as long as that hdd is bigger than or the same size as your ssd. have a look at clonezilla for this. You can then read this hard drive’s contents from the new Linux install to copy over files you want.