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#Linux friends!
My goal is to have CasaOS running in my home
I was told Ubuntu was the 'best' distro for this (??)
I'm loading it on my old SkullCanyon NUC
Apparently 24.04 LTS seems to have an incompatibility with video drivers
I can't get the GPU to work (at all)
What other distro should I try? #Debian? #Fedora? #Mint (Debian Edition?)

Keep in mind I don't really care which distro I use. #CasaOS is my only goal so I'm looking for the one that is most compatible with my 7. year old Intel NUC.

Marco Trevisan :ubuntu:

@3v1n0@fosstodon.org replied · 3 days ago

@scottjenson check if using a PPA like https://launchpad.net/~kisak/+archive/ubuntu/kisak-mesa helps to get newer drivers for your hardware, or can just use ubuntu 25.10 instead

Scott Jenson

@scottjenson@social.coop replied · 3 days ago

@3v1n0 Thanks, I had to try about 10 different permutations of the GRUB init file but I *think* I've found the problem, I needed to add:

modprobe.blacklist=amdgpu

to the Grub init file which prevented the AMD driver to load which was crashing the graphics system. But let's be clear, I'm a linux noob and I could have just got lucky and there is something entirely different at fault.

Marco Trevisan :ubuntu:

@3v1n0@fosstodon.org replied · 3 days ago

@scottjenson oh maybe still using the Radeon one? Anyways, good that you got it booting!

Tris

@tris@chaos.social replied · 4 days ago

@scottjenson Debian is a good choice

Scott Jenson

@scottjenson@social.coop replied · 4 days ago

@tris Thanks, I just tried Mint (Debian build) and it failed as well (I can boot in compatibility mode, just not using the intel graphics driver). It appears my 7 year old NUC is REALLY not very compatible. I had the vague belief that Linux was kind to older hardware?

Tris

@tris@chaos.social replied · 3 days ago

@scottjenson Usually Debian works on older hardware as it's less likely drop or disable older hardware drivers. Can you run `lsmod | grep i915` in the terminal and see if it's loaded?

Scott Jenson

@scottjenson@social.coop replied · 3 days ago

@tris it is not. I can't even boot without setting nomodeset in the GRUB file. Apparently it is an incompatibility with the more modern driver and my older NUC. I've tried updating my BIOS (I was on a 2021 version) but still no dice. I tried Mint(Debian) w/new bios but it also failed so I'm now going to try ubuntu-25.10-desktop-amd64.iso

Note: ALL of these distros work if I go into compatibility mode. I'm trying to get the GPU to work which is what is holding me up

Julius Schwartzenberg - Юліус

@jschwart@mas.to replied · 4 days ago

@scottjenson it would be good to know more about the GPU. Note that hardware is typically handled by Linux as in the kernel which doesn't really deviate between distros.

Possibly you could look at a newer version of Ubuntu or using the current Ubuntu version with a newer version of Linux.

For GPUs there are also things like Mesa that can be relevant, but I don't know if that's used by LLMs.

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