Hopefully I have found the correct discussion thread. I am trying my best to get away from all the bloat and live services that has become windows. I have tried many distros and for some reason Fedora keeps calling me to use it. Especially the GMONE DE.
Ok now to the main issue that keeps me away thus far. I have the Intel ARC B580 it seems that it should work for the most part. But what I like to do is mess around with AI, Games, a bit of coding, Etc. I guess what I am getting at is I can not seem to find very many offline tools for AI that will use this GPU in linux. By chance does anyone have any ideas on what I can do. I am not yet familiar with running containers and things like that just yet. Trying to get used to the system first. Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.
-update I have had enough of the system crashes and explorer.exe crashes. I’m moving away from windows.
I don’t have an Intel GPU, so treat this as a pointer rather than reliable advice. But you could start by looking at IPEX-LLM, which allows an Intel GPU to be used with PyTorch and other AI libraries.
It seems to be provided as apt packages and they recommend using Ubuntu, so it’s likely to work best in a container. Maybe bookmark it and have it in mind for when you get familiar with containers!
I was reading that as well. IPEX-LMM looks at least promising. Which I should be able to work with one way or another for sure. Sorry for my rant earlier just built a new system put the money into it just to have M$ just do nothing but crash and give me driver errors before I even got started. And one drive in itself is the biggest pain in the tail.
I’m ready to learn something new and hopefully be able to do what I want to do without having to fuss to much. One thing I don’t understand is the software store for any distro really. Lot’s of very old apps that don’t seem to like the newer distros. Who exactly tests all that and either updates or clears out the database. Not that I am qualified to do so but just more of a wondering type thing.
Well I’ve been switched over for about 24 hours now and so far not a single driver issue not a single BSOD. Everything is just working like it is supposed to. I spend 2 days trying to resolve drivers and digging thru the Bios thinking I had missed something. Even had a buddy of mine well versed in M$ setups and he couldn’t figure it out. Even after a clean install it kept giving us the run around.
Only thing I haven’t figured out yet is how to the the computer to resume from standby when I either hit a key on the keyboard or move the mouse but I am sure that’s hidden in the bios. I have used windows since 3.11 For work groups now that was fun to configure. I was always messing something up or not running strong enough hardware for what I was doing. I’m not running anything special besides my Intel ARC B580 and even it is running near perfect.
I have to say the worst of it all is copilot and one drive. No matter how many times I disable or removed it. It always came back. Oh lets not forget about the forced M$ Account creation. I like my OS out of the way until I need it and every 2 seconds all I was hearing is ding well that is when it was working correctly.
As I grow old, I like everything out of the way, not just the OS.
There are two problems with it.
Marketing and sales guys assume “the customer” is a sort of monkey and I must say that is quite ingrained in USA “customer care” mentality.
The same people at some point decided to move to “everything as a service” so everything must be pushed in your face at any given moment.
