Planning on building a Ryzen 5 2400G setup for light gaming/home lab stuff, I need it to run a bunch of VMs and have passable frame rates in games on Linux (I hardly play AAA hard to port games, so should be okay there).

Planning on going full Linux for this, you guys got any tips/warnings/gotchas? Also, have any of you encountered issues with using NVMe SSDs on Linux?

Heard a few issues with NVME and Linux but the ones Ives heard could easily be user error with formatting I think.

But I have heard ryzen is brilliant on Linux, especially VEGA graphics, but I probably would recommend spending the extra (if possible) to get a base level RX card and swap the the APU for a CPU but that is just a personal rule of thumb to not use on board graphics regardless :-3

@lxmcf yeah so here's the thing, I'll be using this thing continuously for only about a year, after that only intermittently (probably will be in university in another country most of the time). Not sure if it's worth investing in a dedicated GPU. I'll see, though, thanks for the recommendation.

I actually have two leftover GPUs from older builds/builds for other people, a Radeon 7770 and a GTX 560Ti, this APU beats one and equals the other :/

I wouldn't be so jumpy if it was a Windows build, heh, because hardware (especially Nvidia :/) eventually tends to work on that and vendors fix bugs (at least major stuff) pretty fast. I just don't want this being screwed up over some obscure bug or shady driver (trying to avoid Nvidia specifically for that, besides, this APU is insane value for money).

@Haxk20 okay, thank you for your feedback!

@RememberMe then yeah I'd stick with the APU in that case, no point investing more into a temporary thing

@Haxk20 heck yeah, I've been following the AMD kernel drivers too, it's seriously great.
Though isn't 2400G a 4C/8T? (Still good enough for me)

@lxmcf right, thanks.

Make sure that you get good RAM

@Kirito-kun yup, 16GB DDR4 3000 (I think?) and an NVMe drive, I'm going overkill on memory performance but that really is the most significant bottleneck these days (not in gaming, but in general).

@irene yup! Got that covered.

Running pretty much the same config on fedora. Oh god there were some serious GPU driver issues. Been fixed since 4.18 kernel.