I am about to make the switch to Linux fully after a brief test period some time ago. Since you are all most likely more tech savvy than I, I wanted to ask if there were any immediate problems you see with this PC for running Linux Mint. I’m not aware of any, but it wouldn’t be the first time I was wrong.

Any help, advice, or even alternative hardware recommendations are appreciated.

  • @just_another_personEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    I concur with most of this, with one caveat. If you’re going with a Zen4 platform, make absolutely sure you choose a distro that lets you run kernel 6.5+, or else you’ll be having some issues. The main thing in the newer kernels for AMD and Zen4 is the amd-pstate management driver, and a number efficiency and compatibility drivers for things like caching and memory bus. The machine will run okay-ish without, but you’ll get some performance issues, and needless power ramping that just wastes power.