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I'm actually a little scared of running Linux on modern, fast hardware.
How is multi-GPU driver support?
My main machine is a 900 TFlops compute monster (4 GPUs) running ROCM on Windows, and the last time I'd tried Manjaro on Desktop, it seized up for unknown reasons.
I've got asynchronous monitors - 1440p@165Hz main display and 4K@85Hz flipped vertical for a side monitor. Occasionally, I plug in a projector which is 1080p, mirrored to the 4K, but flipped horizontal.
I'm not sure what I'd done wrong because it works perfectly on my 11 year old Z575 (Debian+KDE there).
What distro would you recommend for an extremely fast/high RAM machine? I've got 128GB of main system memory, and 4TB of M.2 for a system disk running at 7.6 gigabytes/second actual/real-world RW I/O.
well ROCM is supported in Linux https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/
I've installed it on my (single) AMD GPU (I thought it was for something else) on EndeavourOS (which is, obvs, arch btw :D).
I've been using endeavourOS for about 1y now, after a few years of Mint (and 20years of everything else. Yes, I've used gentoo as well back when it was only install from stage1). It does feel faster (on the same hw) but I've never done any real benchmarking, so it could be just "new shiny feeling faster". I've found an article a few weeks ago comparing boot/compression speeds of different distros. In your particular case I wouldn't be using Debian as I feel you'd need quite up-to-date drivers, and Debian is conservative (and that's a good thing personally, I use it on my servers).
Just install Linux Mint and be done. Just a side note but there is no such thing as "drivers" like there are on Windows. Everything is baked into the kernel. If you run Nvidia you will need to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers. These aren't like Windows drivers but they are external.
Uh, if they want to use ROCm (kinda like CUDA, but for AMD), they do have to install it manually. It is available for some distros, so that hopefully shouldn't be a problem.
Fedora now ships with ROCm. I don't think it is completely ready yet but its a start.