Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) ha scritto il 14/02/2017 alle 01:36: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 09:15:05 +0100 Massimo Maiurana <[email protected]> said: > >> I have a quite old notebook, it will find seven candles on the next >> birthday cake and I'm afraid it will be time to buy a new one. > > woooo... it still lives? how? has it basically had every part replaced? :)
Yeah, it lives thanks to a lightweight window manager that you know very well ;) And no, never replaced anything, only removed dust from the fan a couple of times. Thanks to you and Daniel, I think I'll stick to intel and keep amd as an alternative. Bye Massimo >> Regarding graphics, what would be the best bet for a linux user, and >> more specifically for an E user? What is best supported by drivers? >> For example, I currently have an old intel chip (gma 4500) that doesn't >> work anymore in GL mode so I had to switch to software compositing, and >> I'm worried that the integrated graphics in Intel Core i5 series >> processors could give me some problems. >> >> Thanks in advance for your hints :) > > any intel chip since the first i3/5/7 gens will be just fine. sandybridge on > is > perfectly fine for sure. some of the older intel gpu's were iffy. they kinda > did almost all of oepngl2 but not all of it. but that was fixed. if you guy a > new laptop today anything with an i3//5/i7 will be just fine. intel are not > the > speediest of gpu's but they are perfectly adequate for 2d. they may begin to > struggle with really high res (like multiple 4k montiors). > > most intel gpu based systems often have limited muti-screen support. at least > on motherboards often they have had eg hmdi and vga (so 1 digital, 1 analog) > which would make it hard to decently run any high res off the vga. and if you > wanted 3 screens it'd be a struggle. that may have improved now. i haven't > tried intel on a desktop recently. but on laptops the intel gpus hum along > nicely for a desktop even at high resolutions. they will begin to struggle > with > games. if you don't play games (or only ones with simple graphics), then an > intel gpu today is just fine. of course nvidia and amd will scale up much > more. > for games nvidia will trounce the amd on linux, but the amd has open source > drivers... at least for recent cards. though i have avoided amd for years > after > the last time fglrx screwed me over... > > so if you are going to get another laptop ... well i'd advise going for a pure > intel-only one and you'll be just fine. if its a desktop - choose your > motherboard carefully to get the outputs you want for the intel AND you can > optionally also add a discrete gpu too... > > for now though stick clear of nvidia if you want to do anything wayland > related... :) > -- Massimo Maiurana Ragusa (RG) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
