Are there any CPUs that work well with Linux that aren't made by Intel or another company on the BDS list/that supports Israel?

I have a Ryzen 3 1300X at the moment and it’s always had this soft lock freezing bug on Linux. I used to dual-boot Windows on this machine and Windows never had the same problem, so I think it is an issue with the Linux kernel (I’ve also replaced nearly every bit of hardware that I originally built the PC with, except for the CPU and motherboard, so it probably is an issue the kernel has with my CPU, or possibly the motherboard firmware).

I’ve changed the kernel parameters as suggested by the Arch Wiki. The bug is pretty inconsistent about happening so only time will tell if this solves the issue. But if it doesn’t solve the issue, I’d honestly consider just getting a new CPU that doesn’t have this issue, as completely freezing up, unable to get to a tty or anything, and only being able to power off by physically holding down the power button, is a pretty major issue, even if it only happens sometimes.

So if I do get a new CPU, or maybe just for when I’m next buying a CPU for reasons unrelated to this bug (been considering an upgrade to something that’s better for compiling anyway), are there any good options out there? Intel is investing $25 billion into Israel and the BNC has called for “divestment and exclusion” from it (it’s not officially on the BDS consumer boycott list, but I’m still very much not comfortable buying from Intel). But the Arch Wiki article seems to suggest this bug is applicable to Ryzen CPUs in general, or at least it never specifies a particular model or range of models. So maybe I’m limited to non-Ryzen AMD CPUs?

I’m guessing this is one of the situations where two companies have a complete duopoly over the market and there isn’t an all-round good solution, but thought I’d ask in case anyone had some useful input.

flashgnash,

Am I the only one of the opinion tech companies that don’t produce any kind of military equipment should not have any political leaning whatsoever?

ProgrammingSocks,

This is pointless. Your tax dollars are doing MUCH more for Israel than what products you buy. Boycotts are a capitalist distraction from the real systemic issues.

root,

His point wasn’t to find a CPU, it was to make a political post in a tech community.

Goun,

I agree. We need more of these!

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Not when there’s an organised boycott, called for by Palestinians. You can do multiple things at once. Not buying something takes 0 hours of your time lol

Shareni,

Not buying something takes 0 hours of your time lol

It takes so little time you needed to make a post to ask for help lol

SkippingRelax,

Omg such a waste of time that could have been spent scrolling through memes instead of trying to do the right thing.

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Making a post takes a few mins of time. Not boycotting is taking so little of your time that you needed to make 2 comments about it, wow

mraow_,

Making a post takes a minute. Responses will take less than a minute. They were crowdsourcing specific and quite niche knowledge. In that time between making the post and reading them after a wait OP was able to do literally anything else instead of searching and trying to pull out decent looking CPUs they couldn’t guarantee. If you were buying any CPU you would hopefully look for reviews or comparisons, BDS or not, to inform you.

sheogorath,

What if you live in a country that doesn’t send any money to Israel? Also, boycotts do work.

onlinepersona,

Buhruh! Why not just stop voting since “your vote is only a drop in the ocean” or “it only legitimises a broken system”?

Every action towards progress counts. It’s better than nothing, which is what people do if you ask them to change the world in one go. Change is gradual, change is slow, change can be achieved by the small actions of many. Not everybody has the time to “tackle the systemic issues” you perceive to be true nor does everybody agree that those are the core issues.

Belittling action, no matter how small, is discouraging and counterproductive.

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ProgrammingSocks,

Voting is good because elections can be won by a few votes and ARE won by a few votes consistently. The tiny fraction off the top of your CPU purchase that might end up possibly supporting Israel is doing nothing compared to the hundreds of millions that, may I remind you, you cannot opt out of sending to Israel.

Changing what products you consoom is literally feel-good liberal shit to make you feel like you’re doing something. Talking to representatives and protesting is way more effective, in the sense that one of them does nothing and the other actually does something.

onlinepersona,

Changing what products you consoom is literally feel-good liberal shit to make you feel like you’re doing something.

This is why big companies continue making money, influencing politics, and can have more profits than some countries have budgets. Then people like you turn around and say “ermagerd, companies are destroying the world” with an iPhone in one hand and a venti in the other while wearing fast fashion. But at least you voted, amirite?

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ProgrammingSocks, (edited )

You are severely overestimating the amount of people who, to put it the shortest way I can think of rn, are not NPCs.

Yes, what you say could be true in a perfect world where everybody or even a majority of people participate in boycotts. I still believe it’s a distraction from capitalism’s structural problems but they could still be effective that way. The difference is that the world we live in is not that world and therefore small-scale boycotts like this do basically nothing. The average person does not care what companies support Israel. Also a lot of those lists are literally wrong but that’s a different issue. Also also, the government STILL sends a SHITTON of money to Israel whether you personally support it or not.

merthyr1831,

This smells of reductionist “no ethical consumption under capitalism” ideology.

That just means living in capitalism doesn’t exempt you from criticising the system, not that you can’t and shouldn’t use the mechanism of capitalism to help make life difficult for fascists.

It might not “fix” the problems but it sure as hell is making Israel pay while our national governments do fuck all.

LeFantome,

milkv.io/pioneer

nickwitha_k,

Holding out for the Oasis, myself. Cores licensed from SiFive and compliant even with the 1.0 rev of the Vector Extension (SG2380).

LeFantome,

Did you pre-order?

nickwitha_k,

Not yet but planning to at the weekend.

KindaABigDyl,
@KindaABigDyl@programming.dev avatar

What is BDS?

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

bdsmovement.net

merthyr1831,

Modern Ryzen are fine on Linux. Not sure where they’re declaring it happens for “all Ryzen” from.

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Not sure where they’re declaring it happens for “all Ryzen” from.

I’ve not see anyone claim it happens on “all Ryzen”, just that the Arch Wiki article doesn’t specify a particular range or model

NorthCountryHermit,

Flapping about, feeling morally superior… did you even try to search for an answer or did you just want to virtue signal? Take a look at RIsc, or Arm… or w/e the Chinese just released.

catloaf,

Buy Intel used so that you’re not directly contributing?

Other than that or AMD, your only other option is ARM.

headroom,

Can you go and buy an ARM CPU and build a desktop system with it?

Deckweiss,

ltt made a video recently-ish showcasing a multi threaded arm cpu desktop. Not sure how availabe that is to the market though.

Grappling7155,

Check out the Ampere Altra Developer Platform

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

The OP is concerned about stability and you’re suggesting an experimental CPU that is plagued by UEFI bugs and is overly expensive? From what I’ve been even a cheap Chinese SBC with a Rockchip CPU is more stable and reliable than that thing.

catloaf,

Yes.

Not many, but they exist. I think most of them come soldered to the board like laptops.

TCB13,
@TCB13@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve no ideia what you’re rambling about. I can attest that the Ryzen 5 1600 and the Ryzen 5 2600 that aren’t even new CPUs run perfectly fine with Debian.

sentient_loom,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’ve heard that newer Ryzens play nicer with Linux.

UmbraTemporis, (edited )

Yeah, my 5800X3D works perfectly; absolutely zero issues. I’m guessing it’s making use of the 3DvCache too since I don’t notice any performance degredations compared to Windows.

Stanley_Pain,
@Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yeah First Gen Ryzens definitely had a Linux lock up bug. My x1700 had it all the time and could never fix it.

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Do you know if it’s limited to first gen Ryzens? I’m looking into getting a Ryzen 5 5600X and I want to be sure I’m not gonna have the same issue

Stanley_Pain,
@Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Yes, AMD was replacing Ryzens that had that bug. I’m not sure if they are anymore though. But it’s 100% a confirmed thing. I have not heard anything Zen 2 and newer having this problem and have no experienced any Linux issues with my 3000, 5000 and 7000 series CPUs.

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Ah rip. I didn’t know they were replacing Ryzens. I’ll reach out to them but the warranty on my CPU is almost definitely voided after so long.

piexil,

extremetech.com/…/254750-amd-replaces-ryzen-cpus-…

They probably won’t replace it past warranty but it’s always worth a shot

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Never experienced or even heard of Steam Deck having that bug and that’s a somewhat recent Ryzen.

ProgrammingSocks,

My Ryzen 9 5900X has none of these issues.

hallettj,
@hallettj@leminal.space avatar

I have a Ryzen 7 5800X and I’ve had no problems

Sentau,

I have a 5600h system(laptop) and I have not run into the issue you mention. In fact in the past six months after the fTPM bullshit was fixed, I haven’t run into any issues.

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

the fTPM bullshit

Wait, what’s that?

Sentau,

In zen 2 and above firmware TPM was being used for a random number generator. This led to stutters during RN generation. Eventually this was fixed in 6.3.x series(or 6.4.x I can’t remember) and then the fix was backported to all lts kernels

PureTryOut,
@PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social avatar

I experienced that issue, AMD replaced it for free for me. Still rocking that R7 1700 to this day, still going to strong!

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I have a 3600X and haven’t had any problems under Linux.

SimplyTadpole,
@SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Can confirm (but mine is the regular trim rather than the X version).

VeganCheesecake,
@VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

It’s better value anyway. Only got the X because it had a rebate while the standard didn’t.

Sheldan,

I run AMD r9 7000 series fine on Linux since like a month

mesamunefire,

Risc v maybe? Rock 64?

merthyr1831,

A few more years until RISC-V is at 1st-gen ryzen levels (though it looks like RISC-V is accelerating every day)

bruhduh,
@bruhduh@lemmy.world avatar

My Ryzen 5700u work great with Debian, so as others said, consider upgrade CPU on your am4 motherboard, better buy apu since it always feels good to have backup gpu in your system in case main gpu breaks

princessnorah,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I don’t think getting an APU ‘just in case’ is a good idea. It limits your turbo frequency and halves your L3 cache compared to the equivalent CPU variants. It also limits you to PCIe 3.0 only. Some AM4 boards have a single 4.0 x16 slot for graphics cards, so getting an APU could directly affect the graphics performance from a discrete GPU. OP should get the chip that is more suited to their typical use case.

noddy, (edited )

Not 100% sure if it is the same issue as you linked to, but I have an early Ryzen 7 1700 that has a hardware error (google “ryzen performance marginality” to find info about it) causing it not to work properly with linux. I never bothered to RMA my CPU. I’ve made it kinda work anyways, by disabling cool and quiet or whatever it is called, and set a fixed overclock to compensate for the lack of turbo after that. The idea is that the CPU should always run at a fixed clock speed instead of clocking down to save power when idle. Haven’t had any issues with this CPU for a while now after I did that.

BTW I upgraded my desktop with a 3900x and put the 1700 in a server. Never had any issues with the 3900x on linux, so getting a newer generation ryzen for you PC second hand or something might just fix it as well.

communism,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Thank you, I’m getting this response a lot. Will be getting a newer gen Ryzen, probably a Ryzen 5 5600X because I don’t want to get an AM5 board (which will only support DDR5 RAM, thus I’ll have to replace my perfectly good DDR4 sticks, etc, just a ridiculous amount of unnecessary e-waste when I’ve had multiple people commenting here saying 5000 series seem to work fine)

kittenzrulz123,

Please keep politics out of here

bloodfart,

Yeah, there’s nothing political about free software! Why should we have to read about people’s liberatory ideas in the linux community?

It’s absurd I tell you!

possiblylinux127,

I know you are joking but I actually agree with your statement

bloodfart,

That’s bad.

possiblylinux127,

That’s good

bloodfart,

you generally don’t want to hold a position being satirized, but if you feel the need, go off: how is there nothing political about free software?

kittenzrulz123,

Ohhh, I the title is just confusing. I thought it meant companies that support Israel. Nevermind, but companies that don’t are sadly rare.

possiblylinux127,

For what its worth I agree with you. From my experience the idea of not being political is unpopular with lemmings

palordrolap,

Attempting to avoid politics is itself a political stance. Enjoy your paradox, fellow lemming.

MrAlternateTape,

While it probably isn’t the issue for you, I have once been chasing a hard freeze that was caused by some APM setting in the BIOS. If you are on AMD right now you could check it.

It was very weird, setting it to automatic would cause random freezes. Setting it to on or off would both work just fine. Somehow the automatic setting gave me issues.

Just a random thing for you to check I guess.

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