Posted 04 May 2025 - 05:26 PM
I use PI on my PC running Gentoo and KDE. No problems. PI has some complex UI, so KDE is what's important. It may have some quirks and bugs on other window managers. I tried it on plain Ubuntu with Wayland, last time a few months ago. It just didn't show any UI at all, useless. To be safe, I'd anticipate using KDE on any distro.
GPU is only useful for a handful of processes, none of which are in the base package. I don't have Nvidia GPU, so Russ's *XT things run slow for me, but that's fine. I have a discrete AMD GPU which is plenty enough to render the UI and images of course.
One day they may start utilizing GPU for more first party processes, but that day hasn't come yet. Weigh your risks.
Make sure you don't skimp on fast storage for scratch space and plenty of RAM. After that, the more CPU power the better.
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