Hi,
The PrueOS installer frequently crashed on me trying to install on multiple partitions and drives as per CIS benchmark requirements. I find it impossible to do it with encryption and the luks combining to create volumes don’t work as is, and trying with just multiple partitions I have to manually mount partitions and restart the installer to get it to work after the installer crashes.
I am on a X570 Aorus Extreme v.1.1 MB. With a Radeon 5700XT GPU and Ryzen 9 5950X.
I am currently running without encryption but want encryption with separate partitions for /var /var/log /var/log/audit /var/tmp /tmp /home and / and /boot, /swap but it is not working with the installer.
Try using the installer with the default configuration instead of using advanced installer optons, as the default configuration already uses LUKS encryption.
Maybe it’s better to put the previous point slightly differently: Any GPU that requires proprietary drivers or firmware in order to get all the functionality and performance that you paid for … would be better used with a distro other than PureOS.
I’m more familiar with nVidia than AMD GPUs and, there, the basic point is, yes, you can use the open source nouveau driver but you won’t be able to get maximum benefit from the GPU that you bought. You can taint the kernel by installing the blackbox nVidia driver but then why would you want to run PureOS in that case. You can’t be both pure and impure.
I am using X470 Aorus Gaming Wifi with Nvidia 2080 Ti GPU and Ryzen 7 2700x, and when I installed PureOS on this machine using the installer it is running fine without driver modifications. As @irvinewade stated, nouveau is sufficient to handle the GPU. But also, things seem fine with regards to handling the CPU. So, I don’t think any proprietary drivers are in use.
But I did a simple install. I don’t have independent encryption on separate partitions. As far as I know, the PureOS installer is “broken” and has been for some time, wherein attempts to turn off disk encryption while installing will be blocked by the GUI because it does not allow the user to click “Next”.
Maybe I’m crazy, but would it be reasonable to install PureOS to / first, then once you have a running system, create additional partitions and configure them to auto-mount into these other locations while the system is off and you’re booted from some other bootable linux drive?
I guess I would have to go back and look at what options the installer is offering.
Is PureOS suitable for CAD work using the nouveau driver?
Like @Richard378 I currently have an X570 AORUS ULTRA with an AMD Radeon RX580 running 3240x1920 across three monitors in XUbuntu.
I have just ordered a Samsung 49" Odyssey OLED G9
with 5,120 x 1,440 resolution. The RX 580 8GB graphics card has a maximum digital resolution of 7680 x 4320 so it should be sufficient for this set up.
My understanding is that PureOS will not work out-of-the-box on anything with a dedicated video card. That is, PureOS expects the integrated Intel GPU and its driver. You can of course compromise your privacy by going ahead and installing the needed extra stuff anyway. In my experience nouveau is not as good as the actual nVidia driver (proprietary, privacy-destroying). It’s your choice.
I’m no expert but it might depend on how the hardware is wired up internally and/or BIOS settings - so it may well depend on what desktop / laptop hardware you are even talking about.
On the grub menu goto the grub command line before booting the os and type insmod all_video to load the graphics then go back to the grub menu and boot to get past the video missing error on boot. For Radeon GPUs.
