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1680 points etbusch | 2 comments | 19 May 22 12:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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pizza234 ◴[19 May 22 14:08 UTC] No.31434847[source]▶
Alder Lake is still not fully supported by Linux (improvements are coming with v5.18¹, which is not stable yet, and it will take a while to be released into several linux distros (at least the Ubuntu based)).

It's a shame, because it would have been a great moment to offer an AMD alternative.

¹=https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/intel-thread-director-c...

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1. ripley12 ◴[19 May 22 18:04 UTC] No.31438061[source]▶
Things are fine on Linux even without Thread Director support. I've been running Fedora 36 (kernel v5.17) on a 12900K for a few months now without any noticeable issues.
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2. pizza234 ◴[20 May 22 07:19 UTC] No.31444309[source]▶
According to the article above, Linux pre-5.18 will mostly choose P(erformance) cores.

On a desktop context, this may go unnoticed (so, in your cases like yours, it's not a problem at all), however, in a laptop, it will make the CPU inefficient, defeating the point of the Alder Lake design.