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Ok System info, first thing you need to understand is Linux everything is a file. Most of the CPU info and stats are just a file that you or any other program can access. It very different to windows where you need to install 3rd software to understand you computer.
That being some system have system monitor which you can run with see the load on your cpu's. There are other apps that you have install and configure that can be super pretty and show the info on the desktop. These apps will large depend on you what Desktop environment you use but you can use conky which is fairly DE angosntic and you will need to configure it.
Anyway once you have identified your hardware just use a wiki of google to install it. Only one caveat for sounds if your are using a live dvd. Is if you are using hdmi sounds via you graphic card, you will probably have to install the proprietary drivers and not the open source ones.
Never tried to benchmark the drivers. Generally AMD drivers are a mess right now. They are in the process of unifying open and proprietary driver for both OSs so until the process is complete it going to be a mess. You can bet that the Linux performance will be lower than the windows counterpart for now. Although most games run ok.
I will suggest Fedora 23 or in my case, Chapeau 23. I got tired of the Mint/Buntu rigmarole every 6 months. The fact that Mint has not stayed current on the kernel is disappointing. i used to use Mint over Ubuntu because it was nicer looking and easier to use while at the same time staying up to date with everything. We have been on Mint 17 for how many iterations now? 3? That is meaning that Mint 17.3 is STILL based on Ubuntu 14.04 which used Kernel 3.13. My laptop/desktop actually ran slower on Mint 17.3 than on Fedora/Chapeau 23.
Fun fact, with Fedora/Chapeau 23, you do not need to install Intel drivers. Intel does not even have an installer for them because and I quote:
Built from Fedora Workstation 23 with Gnome 3.18, LibreOffice 5, Steam,
RPMFusion, PlayOnLinux and tons of custom enhancements, apps &
utilities.
No need to install anything yourself, audio & video files, Adobe Flash, DVDs & BluRays just work. Third-party software & tools included without tainting the simplicity of the Gnome desktop.
Steam is ready to go. PlayOnLinux can also make it easy to run thousands of Windows programs & games. Many system tools are preinstalled and on the live image. Includes gnome-disks, gparted, chntpw, testdisk, powertop, iotop, stress, screen, Clam Antivirus & more.
i used to use Mint over Ubuntu because it was nicer looking and easier to use while at the same time staying up to date with everything. We have been on Mint 17 for how many iterations now? 3? That is meaning that Mint 17.3 is STILL based on Ubuntu 14.04 which used Kernel 3.13.
You just download the installer from the site (a .run file). Make it an executable (if you are on mint you can easily do it from the file properties) and run it in the terminal ( ./*filename* ). It will make new folder with the executable for the benchmark inside.
Chrome is needed if you want to watch netflix though, Chromium won't work as far as I know. Chrome is in the software manager of Mint, so no biggie. It even had a warning when I tried with a .deb first hand round, saying there was a newer version in the software manager. (and the newer version is required if veracrypt is installed aswel, the older version wanted to uninstall it).
I have tried both Ubuntu and Mint (along with a few others) to make the jump to linux myself.
I got tired of the Ubuntu DE pretty quickly though, especially after the initial wow factor of something different from Windows. Been running Mint on my laptop for nearly a year now (dual booting with win7) and really like. Spent a little bit of time setting up the desktop to my liking, which is great from a learning perspective. As mentioned above try out the live USB distros and see which one appeals.
I am going to try out Kubuntu with Plasma 5 soon to see how that looks and then probably Chapeau 23 (dammit LinuxMaster9 :) another distro to try out)
I never tried Netflix on Chromium. I think the only thing that its missing are a few plugins. Otherwise its the same thing. I would prefer Chromium over chrome just because of the lack of google commercial software. Personally I am a firefox user.
The answer is probably yes. If you have terminal output the normal etiquette is to provide small terminal output in posts and if there are long posts then use pastebin or Even if you don't have a graphic enviroment you can still post to termbin with net cat by typing:
$ command whatevers nc termbin.com 9999
That is your issue ? what is your card which driver are you using. Are you still in a Live DVD environment ?"
If you are in a live enviroment is will be tough, because unless I am great mistaken Gfx driver need to loaded at boot. And the difference with say open nvidia drives and Nvidia drivers actullay conflict. So to do the testing you make need to install "baremetal"
Netflix DOES work on Chromium, you just have to install the Widevine package. I use Arch, so it makes it easy that it is available in the AUR, but should be easy enough to compile and install on other distros.
If that sounds too complicated, then I would recommend you stick with either Mint or Ubuntu. It really doesn't matter which, but just know your Linux experience will likely be short lived if you don't familiarize yourself with the way it operates. The terminal is your friend, and after your get use to using it, you will find it invaluable.
Once your done slummin it with Ubuntu you should probably try and move onto more interesting distros such as OpenSuse. Theres a guide to use its package manager already on here too ;) courtesy of yours trully.
It might help. The open driver has problematic 3d performance (since the juicy parts of the driver are kept closed by AMD). Just use the automated driver manager application to install the proprietary ones.
Ok so your card is amd so you need to understand what chipset/codename your card is.
And remember google is your friend here, use to work out if you open or close source drivers are better for you needs. My gut feelings is that closed catalyst drivers are probably the ones you are interested in.
Now fair warning / or excitement depending on your point of view. If you have a newer AMD gfx card you may need to use "live" drivers. By this I mean drivers that are experimental offen called SVN or GIT packages. you may need to compile them yourself. Which sounds harder that it is.
rebooted with persistent 17.3 mint, fixed my propriety gpu opengl issues with 17.1 Everything is smooth with Unigine Valley Benchmark. I haven't honestly seen opengl renders since N64 emulation days or back in the Vodoo Glide fx days, lol. Ah and found out the widget names on mint too so I guess I'm see. CPU usage on idle way lower than 17.1 by 2-5% on all cores for some reason too. Now I just gotta wait for linux game support as well as 3d max & adobe to move over.
Great,
So its working.
Widget pffft, have a look at conky. LInux games support ..... ? what does that mean ?
1stly it don't think that is considered news that not all AAA gaming come to linux. But if you as you stated on your 1st post and the whole reason we have been conversing is that you given linux a serious go. so get over it. There are mutliple options include PCI pass-throught which is fucking cool way to have the best of both world in my humble opinion.
Ok 1st question about 3dmax and Adobe, forgive me for making an assumption (of which I could be wrong). But going to guess that you don't professional work with 3ds and Adobe. dont take the a bad way but if you are running them did you pay for them ? or are you using rips ?
But to say your waiting for 3d max is pretty ignorant. As both Maya and Lightwave exist in native linux environment but they cost money. Blender is mutli platform but truely excellent program and doubles as a non-linear video editor as well. I guess the real question is are you happy to use a new and different interface.
I recommend this Udemy course, I found it on kickstarter and I think is awesome
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Pfffft Adobe what you mean when you say that dude. There are like 6 programs in the suite. But if you want free open and awesome that can equal adobe for everthing but super-profesional work. You need to install at inkscape, scribus and gimp. They are high quailty programs. If you need to know your way around them use these manuals
I reckon that people forget about their user experience. My big gripe with windows and mac (mostly windows) is that your experience is controlled. I have used xfce, razor-qt, lxde and KDE, my choice is KDE I love it. When I have working on bullshit windows for my work I get frustrated every sec because I have to use windows, because windows doesn't do what I tell it. This for me is the key benefit for the *nix where its BSD or linux. So Dude dive In ! partition a small part of your HDD and live the dream. Don't worry you can mount your windows partitions and share your data with NTFS-3G.
If you've chosen to reuse an old PC then the chances are it already has a version of Windows installed on it. Although it's possible to use Windows XP in conjunction with Windows Media Player as a media server, it's not a particularly flexible option and in our experience it's pretty flaky, too.
The alternative is to go for a free solution, and Linux is the obvious choice. Although many people are put off by the mere thought of the OS, distributions such as Ubuntu are now easy to use, and while you may need to venture to the command line once in a while, we've tried to keep that to a minimum here.
Head to www.ubuntu.com, download the ISO image for Ubuntu (currently at version 9.04) and burn the image to a CD. On your media server PC, change the BIOS settings to boot from CD, pop the disc in and let the Install wizard run its magic.
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