Choice of graphics card for productivity uses only
by Mike B. from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6CZXQ)
I am in the planning stage of a new Linux workstation for personal use. At this point, I am grappling with the graphics card question.
This system will never be used for video games, creating full-motion video, or watching movies from streaming services. In fact, watching tutorial videos on YouTube is probably the most demanding thing the graphics card will have to do. I will be working with spreadsheets, web browsing, coding in a good IDE, and running a very rich GUI desktop.
My display requirements are to have a large monitor 40 to 44i wide and 20i tall, with a resolution of 3840x2160, or possibly 4096x2160. I expect I will be sitting in front of this display for hours at a time, from 20 to 24i away, so the display has to be rock-steady and very sharp.
The question at this point is which graphics card to buy. Everything I have read up to now has been so discouraging that I think I am going to cry. Apparently, it all boils down to software, not hardware. Itis all about the drivers. It really looks to me like Linux support is little more than an afterthought to the hardware manufacturers.
Intel appears to be the best of the bunch (software-wise, anyway), by open-sourcing its drivers, but what Iive read so far indicates that even Intelis support for linux is utter sh!t.
Considering the requirements listed above, can anyone help? Any good news at this point would be very welcome.
This system will never be used for video games, creating full-motion video, or watching movies from streaming services. In fact, watching tutorial videos on YouTube is probably the most demanding thing the graphics card will have to do. I will be working with spreadsheets, web browsing, coding in a good IDE, and running a very rich GUI desktop.
My display requirements are to have a large monitor 40 to 44i wide and 20i tall, with a resolution of 3840x2160, or possibly 4096x2160. I expect I will be sitting in front of this display for hours at a time, from 20 to 24i away, so the display has to be rock-steady and very sharp.
The question at this point is which graphics card to buy. Everything I have read up to now has been so discouraging that I think I am going to cry. Apparently, it all boils down to software, not hardware. Itis all about the drivers. It really looks to me like Linux support is little more than an afterthought to the hardware manufacturers.
Intel appears to be the best of the bunch (software-wise, anyway), by open-sourcing its drivers, but what Iive read so far indicates that even Intelis support for linux is utter sh!t.
Considering the requirements listed above, can anyone help? Any good news at this point would be very welcome.