I currently have a PC running Windows 11 that my S/O and I use multi-seated with Aster Multiseat. However, we’re both equally sick of Windows and are interested in switching to Linux.

However, all the information that I can find on multiseat in Linux are forum posts and unfinished wiki entries for Ubuntu and Fedora, and they all seem to be from around 2008-2012.

We’re about to upgrade our PC to support two RTX 3060s and a Ryzen 9 (of course, including the usual two monitors and sets of peripherals).

Can Linux (preferably Fedora, as it’s my favorite distro so far) easily support multiseating?

Will there be any performance issues using this method?

Is it possible to isolate applications per user? (Aster Multiseat doesn’t do this, so sometimes an application can detect another instance on the other user and refuses to start…)

Thanks in advance.

  • Turun
    3•1 year ago

    If all you want to do is play games, then AMD is the way to go. Better price to performance ratio.

    But if you want to play around with AI, Nvidia is the only game in town. AMD still does not properly support GPGPU on their consumer cards. It’s infuriating and embarrassing really.

    • @TrickDacy
      2•1 year ago

      The performance I’m seeing on AMD makes me tend to agree with your first point. Looks fantastic and framerates are really nice.

      I’m not really interested in AI except for the realtime background noise removal I’d heard about like 2 years ago which apparently Nvidia rtx cards can do. But in all this time I never set it up so I obviously wasn’t that interested in it!

      Surely amd will get gpgpu support working at some point!