I just setup a machine with Linux Mint and it went pretty smoothly. Linux mint website will send you to appropriate mirrors. I had the iso written to a flash drive and that worked fine. I have been getting about 3.8 million ppd (if only I could stay fully loaded all the time)with a 2080 ti. Not sure what everyone gets with windows. 8gb of Ram should be enough. It won’t be highly utilized anyway. I have seen guides saying to just get a single stick of 4gb before so it really has low impact. I haven’t monitored using built in FAH client monitors. Might need to look into that. Works out that I can just walk over to the machines right now lol

Been using Mint on most rigs and will soon delve into Xubuntu to try a different flavor. Just did another setup with mint  over the weekend with an older version of mint I had on a flash drive. Once installed I upgraded. I still use all the commands (copy/paste) in this tutorial from Chris21010
https://forums.evga.com/G...ding-Rig-m2682398.aspx
Do everything in order and things should go smoothly. When it comes time to download driver from NVIDIA I sometimes have issues with the newest and have to either try an older version or enter a terminal command to fetch the opencl package.
 sudo apt install ocl-icd-opencl-dev
 
edit, firewall is turned off by default so make certain to turn it on

Turning firewall on for mint is “Sudo ufw enable” btw

STR1D3R_2

favrepeoria
Turning firewall on for mint is “Sudo ufw enable” btw

Or Menu > preferences > Firewall configuration
 

I like the feeling of typing a code in tho. Much more satisfying then mashing some buttons with a mouse.

Thanks for info!  I can use the newest version of mint (19.3) correct? 

STR1D3R_2
No you can NOT! It is in use right now, I will let you know as soon as I have upgraded L   O   L
Have at it

You almost had me!
 
Going to start playing with Mint today, just waiting on 2060KO Ultra to arrive but have an old GTX660 I can throw in to get it running

Waiting on mine as well.

Getting the following error when trying to fold on the 2060KO?  Any ideas?
 
21:35:26:WU00:FS00:Starting
21:35:26:WU00:FS00:Running FahCore: /usr/bin/FAHCoreWrapper /var/lib/fahclient/cores/cores.foldingathome.org/v7/lin/64bit/Core_22.fah/FahCore_22 -dir 00 -suffix 01 -version 706 -lifeline 1507 -checkpoint 15 -gpu-vendor nvidia -opencl-device 0 -cuda-device 0 -gpu 0
21:35:26:WU00:FS00:Started FahCore on PID 2757
21:35:26:WU00:FS00:Core PID:2761
21:35:26:WU00:FS00:FahCore 0x22 started
21:35:26:WARNING:WU00:FS00:FahCore returned: WU_STALLED (127 = 0x7f)
21:36:09:FS00:Paused
21:36:58:Removing old file 'configs/config-20200427-210441.xml'
21:36:58:Saving configuration to /etc/fahclient/config.xml
21:36:58:<config>
21:36:58:  <!-- HTTP Server -->

Sounds at first glance like a driver reinstall is needed. After that try redoing the slots.

Got frustrated and just installed Win10, I'll play with it again tomorrow.  Thanks for the info on the openCL!

On average, Windows is slightly slower than Linux.
Especially for multi GPU setups, limited by pcie lanes.
Linux also allows more than 64 CPU cores. Any more on windows, and you'll need the server version (for highest end threadripper and Epyc CPU.
 
If you want the absolute best, to with a headless version of either Debian, Ubuntu, or redhat/centos.
Not sure if centos/redhat works more efficient than Debian, but Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian.
So is xubuntu, lubuntu, and mint a derivative of Ubuntu. Which means the underlying architecture of Debian, Ubuntu, lubuntu, mint, xubuntu, and edubuntu is all identical.
 
If you do go with a gui, you could choose between a Mac style gui (Ubuntu using gnome), or a windows Vista style gui (Mint), or a lower eye candy, lower foot print gui like lubuntu (win 98 style gui), or xubuntu (win XP with start bar on the top).
Out of all of them, each works just as fast as the other, but Ubuntu and mint use slightly more ram memory in their gui (a few tens to a hundred megabytes), and lubuntu is using the least. Yet the underlying architecture (the core that handles program performance) is identical to one another.
Debian uses also a bit more RAM for their GUI. Though basic, Debians gui loads entirely from ram, so if you overload the OS with programs, you'll see a significant increase in used idle ram memory, which might affect folding if you're on a limited ram system (4GB or less) and high core count (16 threads or more).
 
 
All other procedures between Debian, Ubuntu, mint, lubuntu,... Is all the same.
Most other questions you asked in the main thread is 'yes'.
You can use the terminal and start an ssh session to access each remote PC.

I remember the first time I had a go around with Linux about 10+ years ago was on Knoppix which had a really neat 3D feel to it. I tried it for awhile but just didnt get to far with it. It is a very light OS that seemed to pack a punch back then. Anyone ever try folding on it? I found a lil tutorial from way back here.  http://linuxminded.xs4all...-windows-network-share
Just out of curiosity I may give it a try again. Not so much for folding but other things. If folding can be run with it that would be a plus.

Finally got the 2060KO folding on Linux Mint 19.3!
Thanks for all the help!
 
Also installed a piece of software called GreenwithEnvy to overclock and monitor the 2060KO

What are the details of your setup BadBertie?
OS, MB, CPU, and GPUs.

My usual trick is to run Xubuntu (lightweight desktop) with the Nvidia driver packages provided by Xubuntu. Making sure the associated compute package and python OpenCL bindings are installed as well. 1 reboot and install folding software and configure.

I'm going to assume that you removed the gpu false flag seeing as how you're no novice (we all forget things from time to time). (Leaving this 4 newbies).
More along the lines of your issue, taken from the F@h forums,
 
"Joe_H wrote:Your client has run into a bug in how it handles updates in the GPUs.txt file that it downloads about once a month to get the changes. In this specific case, some Intel iGPUs have been enabled for the researchers to test and check out possibly supporting them in the future. The Intel GPU has taken over the GPU folding and there are no public WUs.

This can be fixed up.
First pause folding. Then using FAHControl's Configure select the Slots tab. Click on the GPU slot and then Edit. Add the Extra Slot Option 'pause-on-start-true' and set it to 'true'. OK and Save these changes.
Next to add back in your RTX 2080, go back into Configure.and click Add under the Slots tab. On the window for adding and modifying slots click the radio button in the GPU area at the left side. It defaults to CPU, and in some themes is not too visible. OK and Save this. You should now have a working GPU folding slot."
For now do not remove the GPU slot for the unable Intel GPU. The client will just add it back and mess things up again. You can pause folding using the pause all slots, but when resuming you will want to select just the slot for the 2080. To do this Right-click on the GPU slot for the 2080 in FAHControl, a small menu will pop up."
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Hopefully this may help you out bertie.