An untested disaster recovery plan is wishful thinking

1. You can look at manufacturers info pages and see what they support. Intel integrated chips usually list the capabilities and you’ll want to double check with your mini PC or motherboard manufacturer to make sure they support it too. I think any i5+ from the past 5 years with integrated graphics should be able to play/decode 4k media (someone correct me if this sounds crazy). Fornsure my core ultra 265. As far as codec support, I’m not familiar with the compatibilities but I’m sure everything CAN be played on recentish hardware. Encoding is out of my weelhouse.

2. I’ve used HDMI 2.1 hdr 4k120 on Linux with Nvidia, AMD and Integrated Intel. AMD will be the best experience especially on cards from the past 5 years. Nvidia, with proprietary drivers, on 3000 series or newer should be good for a few more years. I heard 2000 series will be dropped from support soonish m. Intel HDMI 2.1 is a pain on linux and I’ve only been able to get HDR 4k120 using a special DP to HDMI cable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isiVdlz8bDY

ROCm on my 7900xt is solid. ROCm on my MI50s (Vega) is a NIGHTMARE

You use Alpine as a daily driver? With a GUI? How does it do with hardware support?

Totally. I wouldn’t even have the conversation with someone just because. I think what I meant was, for a user like her, mostly web and some office tasks, Linux is perfectly suitable.

Ok. This convinced me to give it another serious try

True. And make sure you post a sincerw wall of text to a meme community

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For my job, I’m in the unfortunate position of having to use Teams, Zoom, AND Slack on a daily basis on my work-provided MacBook. They all suck in some way. I use Signal, Discord, and rarely Zoom on ChachyOS with the same hardware (kvm switch) and it doesn’t feel that different

I have casually explored RawTherapee which is probably viable but I didn’t spend as much time as I have in dark table.

Maybe I do turn on too many things…

Edit: To be clear, I edit thousands of raw photos per year and do so in bursts of hundreds. I kind of know what I want so it’s wholly possible that I used the wrong plugins. I know that was something I struggled with when I picked it up. There are 5 ways to do the same thing, the devs had a preference, the docs didn’t tell me, but it wasn’t clear what I was “supposed” to use by just using the application. Now… I could have probably gone and read change logs and release notes but that wasn’t the way I was thinking at the time…

No. Not really. That was a brain fart. I use LibreOffice and OnlyOffice Desktop

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Swap_on_video_RAM

I think this is beyond luck. This is astronomical. It’s orders of magnitude beyond what is lucky for our entire civilization to have produced in its entire existence

If this is reproducible without chicanery, I’m terrified

This is really neat. Thank you. I would love a script or a more newb-friendly guide, not just for me, but for a lot of other users.

Can I make a suggestion? Post your script on github or similar with a proper (open) liscence so people can make suggestions or versions they find useful.

I’ve been on the internet a long time and this made me say “what the fuck” out loud

Edit: not sure whether I should ask what this all is or if ibshpuld complement you on your “output”

3090 24gb ($800 USD) 3060 12gb x 2 if you have 2 pcie slots (<$400 USD) Radeon mi50 32gb with Vulkan (<$300 ) if you have more time, space, and will to tinker

I’m sure someone will give a better answer but this smells of a UEFI/secure boot problem. Look in your BIOS and turn those off or to legacy or “other os”