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? :) > 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... :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
