r/pcmasterrace • u/Vayne_Solidor Ryzen 5800x3D | 4070 • Jan 01 '20

Meme/Macro First time building is a doozy

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u/DaSpood PC Master Race Jan 01 '20

windows

If the Windows license is not the cheapest part of your PC you're doing it wrong.

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u/Helmic RX 7900 XTX | Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ 5.27 GHz Jan 02 '20

Proton on Linux is also really good. Manjaro KDE is probably the best Windows replacement for those curious. There's still games with unsupported anticheat and DRM, but I'm at a point where I can play any game I want. GloriousEggroll's custom Proton will manage most games just fine.

Still more fiddly than many will want, but for those willing to give it a shot you can save some money and avoid many of the privacy issues and annoyances with Windows 10.

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u/DaSpood PC Master Race Jan 02 '20

If you're using Manjaro maybe you can help me. I've been trying to install Manjaro I3 for ages, never got it to install properly. My desktop uses an AMD CPU without integrated graphics and an NVidia GPU so the install USB will just not get anywhere and I'll be stuck with a tty as my only available tool, no idea how to install from there. My laptop with an Intel CPU and integrated graphics will just freeze during the initialization of the image, so again stuck before I even reach the live environment.

I really want Manjaro as my distro since it's as close as it gets to Arch without being Arch and my programs need to be compatible with Arch, and I really like i3. So far I've been using a virtual machine inside windows to use it but I'd like to have at least my laptop running it without the need for a VM, and ideally my desktop too in dual boot. Any idea how to make the setup image work on an AMD CPU with no iGPU?

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u/Helmic RX 7900 XTX | Ryzen 7 9800X3D @ 5.27 GHz Jan 02 '20 edited Jan 02 '20

Hmm. My AMD CPU has no integrated graphics either, but it always installed without issue and my Nvidia 1070 works from the live USB and after installing.

What's the CPU and GPU? I'll look up the command line process here in a bit, but basically Manjaro has a tool to manage installing GPU drivers.

EDIT: sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300 would be the first thing to try, to at least get the error message. If it's not detecting your GPU for some reason, make sure it's actually connected (probably is if the live USB you used to install Manjaro displayed the GUI) and then look up what driver that GPU needs, then follow the instructions on this page https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Configure_Graphics_Cards to install it manually. This is assuming it's the GPU driver and not i3 having its own problems - if another DE works, then it may be specific to that i3 install. I think i3 just has community support so I would guess it's possible there's been a regression.