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Despite the high cost (when compared to 'comparable' x86_64 hardware) I am very excited by this.

However I'm concerned by desktop Linux support and graphics driver support. It would be really miserable to get this kind of machine and then have a lacklustre desktop experience (though I'd be using it as a high-horsepower workstation, it would need to be able to dump computations onto the GPU and use ordinary free productivity software on the side).




Given that they're selling systems with AMD cards in them, I would imagine that AMDGPU/RadeonSI at least would very well.


They had a video of playing Unreal Tournament (the new one) on a Talos 1 with a AMD card.

As long as a card with Open Source driver support gets used it should work mostly fine. Back then they need a 4line patch to play ut4.




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