Does somebody use both, current Intel and AMD tower PCs?

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 at 20:12, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>
> Regarding the Intel/AMD perception, I understand that Linux has had a
> problem with drives for AMD CPU's or AMD GPU's.

No, not in any way I know of.

CPUs arte fine and AMD has some advanced stuff Intel struggles with,
such as AMD SEV, hardware-encrypted VMs on Linux hosts. I wrote the
documentation for SUSE SLE's implementation.

AMD's GPU drivers are FOSS and so much less hassle than nVidia's. When
I had massive problems running two nVidia cards with different GPU
generations, meaning you need two different binary drivers -- which
you can't have at once, on Windows or on Linux -- when I switched to
an AMD card, everything just magically started working, on Windows and
on Linux.

> I understand that (I think, from an article recently in The Register)
> AMD has now left Intel behind, in CPU processing power

Not that I know of, no.

AMD owns the low end: its chips with integrated GPUs offer way more
bang-for-the-buck than low-end Intels.

At the very high end, with manycore chips, they keep leapfrogging one
another. The very high end server AMD chips are a bit cheaper than the
very high end server Intel chips I believe, as AMD pioneered chiplets
-- different CPU components fabbed at different feature sizes, and
integrated into 1 device that goes into 1 socket.
>
> Here in Australia, Intel means Wintel, as new computers with either no
> operating system installed, or, with Linux installed, are simply not
> available, from my understanding

I know nothing about the Australian market but I did not believe this
so I Googled "Linux computer Austrialia" and found several, e.g.

https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/d/linux-laptops-desktops/

 https://freedomtech.com.au/products/

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