AMD and Linux Question regards Axoloti Patcher

axoman 2019-11-15 18:58:50 UTC #1

Is anyone aware of any specific reason why the Axoloti patcher might not run on an AMD RYZEN 7 Pro with VEGA 10 graphics when running under Linux?

Hopefully no one is, I'm just checking cause that's the CPU/GPU combo I'm interested in, and it appears to be well supported under Linux.

dreamer 2019-11-18 13:35:13 UTC #2

There should be no reason why it wouldn't.

Can you say what is the issue you are having? Which distro are you using?

axoman 2019-11-18 19:16:36 UTC #3

Thanks for the response, dreamer, though no technical issue here, I don't even have it yet. I'm just checking before I buy in case there's some known reason I'm not aware of why it would not work. An AMD RYZEN 7 Pro With VEGA 10 for the graphics (a laptop APU) is the best I can go for, so just wanted to make sure it would actually run the patcher under Linux.

I suppose I'd use Ubuntu MATE for my distro, cause I really liked using it on the RPI.

lodevalm 2019-11-19 08:15:20 UTC #4

Hello @axoman,

I've used the patcher on several linux machines without any issue.
I use Xubuntu because it is crazy fast but I've used also Mate and it is a very good distro too.
The patcher is a Java application so there are no reason why it shouldn't work on linux.

Just follow the instructions, that are easy and well written.

axoman 2019-11-19 08:32:26 UTC #5

Cheers lodevalm!

Looks like I'll be going for it then although it won't be until next week. Only thing I have to look into now is how those new BIOS systems work. I had a normal BIOS on my previous machines, but I keep reading about the BIOS getting in the way with the new ones.

The machine doesn't have an optical drive, so I'll have to pick-up a USB stick with a distro on it. I want to make sure that from the first boot, it never gets chance to boot into Windows as it has Windows 10 Pro on it.

lodevalm 2019-12-17 10:31:08 UTC #6

Hey @axoman,
sorry for the late reply, I didn't get notified of your reply...
Ah, the BIOS! Is a nightmare! I know.
Usually I wipe-out the microsoft partitions from the disks and I disallow the "Secure boot" from the BIOS.
Every bios has it own "flavor" to make the linux users' life hard but you can find tutorials...

To make a bootable USB stick I suggest you to use Unetbootin:
https://unetbootin.github.io/
Before uninstalling Windows you can give a try to different distros and decide the one that fits better your needs.

Good look and have fun