Re: Best Linux distro for Nvidia Mining (ETH/Zcash?)

Title says it all, I'd rather not do Win10 mining if I can get around it. For the primary reasons of Win10 isnt slimmed down, has a lot of overhead and the remote management seems like it would be a nightmare.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a proper Linux OS for mining Nvidia cards?

While I can respect your opinion as to why you don't want to use Win 10, what does overhead in the OS have to do with mining performance? I can tell you from experience that it has no effect. Many of your better tools are on Windows, and remote management is a simple checkbox in the System control panel... takes 30 seconds to enable RDP.

I prefer to use SSH and VNC over RDP myself, a lot of it is personal preference rather than which is 'best'

Agreed, personal preference can be a strong factor, but a bogus technical reason should not be a deciding factor was my point.

RDP is a really great protocol these days. I used have a very old laptop that couldnt play any modern games. So I built a hyper-v server core virtual machine nested on my home lab VMware server, and passed-through a physical GPU. I then ran a nested Windows 8 virtual machine running on the hyper-v server. Passed through a vGPU to the Win 8 VM. When you RDP to the Win 8 VM from my laptop I would be using RDP and RemoteFX technology... I could play a modern game on an old laptop instead of being chained to a desktop. I was amazed that I could do that with 3 layers of nesting and virtualization going on. RemoteFX is similar to Citrix's HDX or VMware's newer PCoIP technologies.