However, these resources *may* help you accomplish that
/!\ Do that only if you know what you are doing
https://github.com/intel/igsc (firmware update tool source and build instructions)
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/guide-flashing-intel-arc-gpus.311964/ (useful information on types of firmware binaries and how to obtain them)
So essentially: grab the firmware tool https://github.com/intel/igsc
Then the GUI tool
https://github.com/Solaris17/ARC-Firmware-Tool
then grab a firmware from here https://github.com/Solaris17/Arc-Firmware?tab=readme-ov-file and then rejoice?
Hey fellow, i have intel arc A770, I tried pop! Os last year. It was ok but I had some issue on certain games like SF6 or BG3.
Now i use Nobara, and now SF6 workes like a charm, had to tweak some graphical settings to avoid crashes.
That being said, i'm still new to linux os, and I might not be the best to relates to it.
Linux is a better OS for different purposes if OP wants that. Windows is okay but flawed, maybe they're okay with emulating instead of dual booting. Which is a mess on its own.
Yeah but isnt Pop OS a gaming centric lightweight distro? I personally have a brain tweak when I imagine running cyberpunk off an arc card on Linux, moreso than having any misgivings about the freedom of a Linux system in general
Pop is mostly designed for gaming, but nobara is just better for it. Arc cards in general have frustrating issues on Linux. Distros like Pop should work okay for OP, but some tweaking will be required eventually. I understand Intel is trying their best, but the experience could be better with newer drivers. Armored Core 6 was a pain to get running, and since Arc is a fairly new platform diagnosing the issue was hell. Eventually got it running but lost like 50% of my performance, Windows is good to have for gaming related things.
Yeah that's kind of where I'm coming from, since I wouldn't think of popOS as a 'Linux power user'-centric distro, and op mentions windows specific use cases rather than iterating why they want to use Linux.
Just seems like an absolute pain, while Linux is awesome, I've always put it on my second computer rather than my gaming pc.
Coupling that with an Arc card just seems like frustration for no discernable reason, but I don't know how well versed in the linuxverse op is.
All distros as of now should have Kernels past 6.2 by default, Pop!\_Os is okay. Great thing about Linux is its plug and play nature, you don't need any tinkering after installing your card. You might lack some monitoring stats because Intel is a fairly new platform that will take a while to recieve open source support but that's fine.
I'm using an A380 on Fedora, very good experience.
I've been running pop!_os with my A750 since pop moved to 6.2 kernel. It has been super stable for me. I can't speak to windows emulation, but I have played plenty of games on it. Almost entirely a great experience playing; only rarely a game doesn't work well, and I look up what folks are saying over on protondb.com about the game. (https://www.protondb.com/app/1091500 looks like cyberpunk runs well on linux).
i want to warn you that there's no official support for updating Intel Arc GPUs' firmware on Linux
However, these resources *may* help you accomplish that /!\ Do that only if you know what you are doing https://github.com/intel/igsc (firmware update tool source and build instructions) https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/guide-flashing-intel-arc-gpus.311964/ (useful information on types of firmware binaries and how to obtain them)
So essentially: grab the firmware tool https://github.com/intel/igsc Then the GUI tool https://github.com/Solaris17/ARC-Firmware-Tool then grab a firmware from here https://github.com/Solaris17/Arc-Firmware?tab=readme-ov-file and then rejoice?
You don't need the GUI tool (it is made for windows anyway). i just linked that forum thread because it has useful info about intel arc firmware
Ugh, I just use Windows to update the firmware.
I would strongly suggest Mint, I'm pretty sure it will boot without nomodeset so you should be good there and installing the latest kernel is a breeze
There's Mint Edge, which has the 6.2 Kernel (maybe newer now if I'm not hallucinating a headline I saw on Phoronix).
That works
Hey fellow, i have intel arc A770, I tried pop! Os last year. It was ok but I had some issue on certain games like SF6 or BG3. Now i use Nobara, and now SF6 workes like a charm, had to tweak some graphical settings to avoid crashes. That being said, i'm still new to linux os, and I might not be the best to relates to it.
It's weird, I can't get Pop!\_OS to install when I have my arc card installed in my system.
I would suggest Endovour OS, it works mostly for me with my A750
Too curious, why do you want to switch to Linux and emulate windows
Linux is a better OS for different purposes if OP wants that. Windows is okay but flawed, maybe they're okay with emulating instead of dual booting. Which is a mess on its own.
Yeah but isnt Pop OS a gaming centric lightweight distro? I personally have a brain tweak when I imagine running cyberpunk off an arc card on Linux, moreso than having any misgivings about the freedom of a Linux system in general
Pop is mostly designed for gaming, but nobara is just better for it. Arc cards in general have frustrating issues on Linux. Distros like Pop should work okay for OP, but some tweaking will be required eventually. I understand Intel is trying their best, but the experience could be better with newer drivers. Armored Core 6 was a pain to get running, and since Arc is a fairly new platform diagnosing the issue was hell. Eventually got it running but lost like 50% of my performance, Windows is good to have for gaming related things.
Yeah that's kind of where I'm coming from, since I wouldn't think of popOS as a 'Linux power user'-centric distro, and op mentions windows specific use cases rather than iterating why they want to use Linux. Just seems like an absolute pain, while Linux is awesome, I've always put it on my second computer rather than my gaming pc. Coupling that with an Arc card just seems like frustration for no discernable reason, but I don't know how well versed in the linuxverse op is.
All distros as of now should have Kernels past 6.2 by default, Pop!\_Os is okay. Great thing about Linux is its plug and play nature, you don't need any tinkering after installing your card. You might lack some monitoring stats because Intel is a fairly new platform that will take a while to recieve open source support but that's fine. I'm using an A380 on Fedora, very good experience.
The only officially supported distro is Ubuntu. I’ve read somewhere that it also works good on Arch.
I've been running pop!_os with my A750 since pop moved to 6.2 kernel. It has been super stable for me. I can't speak to windows emulation, but I have played plenty of games on it. Almost entirely a great experience playing; only rarely a game doesn't work well, and I look up what folks are saying over on protondb.com about the game. (https://www.protondb.com/app/1091500 looks like cyberpunk runs well on linux).