You might boot laptops straight into a cloud OS in the future

  • TeaEarlGrayHot@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I very regularly complain about the eGPU issue on Linux, since I want to swap so badly–every program I use (with the exception of Drawboard PDF, which operates on a universal standard) is cross platform, and I have successfully installed a wide variety of linux distros on my laptop and got everything working well (even pen input on Xournal!!).

    However, I use an Nvidia eGPU to drive three additional monitors I use for work, and on Linux I am unable to hotplug my eGPU, instead requiring a login/logout (or at least me closing all my open programs, which defeats the purpose of hotplug). I’ve tried Wayland/Xorg, and distros varying from Fedora to Pop OS (so far, my best experience was on Kubuntu/Wayland, but the computer still regularly crashed when disconnecting). I wish I were a better programmer, since then I could figure the issue out myself!

    As soon as the Linux kernel has better support for hotplugging, I will never need to boot Windows again!

    Edit: I am not unfamiliar with Linux, and I’ve been running Linux servers for well over a decade–I just have little experience in the realm of graphics drivers

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      1 year ago

      Jerboa errored on sending this, hopefully not a double post:

      I’m not sure when the last time you tested it out is, but I’m seeing a few things online about kernel 5.14+ bringing in a lot more support for eGPU, albeit AMD and not Nvidia. I could definitely see how that’d be a deal breaker, but it looks like if it’s not working with the newest kernels yet, maybe someone’s working on it as we speak? Fingers crossed!

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        Fingers crossed indeed!!! Latest kernels do for sure work better, but not quite there yet (crashing ~80% of the time when hot unplugging, more often if programs are running)

        My last test was last week with the latest distros, I’ll definitely follow along with the latest kernel updates. I was just testing with the default installed kernel (which I think is above 5.14)–eventually I’ll need to throw on the surface-linux kernel which lags behind a bit, but I’d be happy to help contribute to that once eGPUs are supported by mainline