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There are a bunch of great build suggestions on the homepage of PCPartPicker. Really the only consideration if you want to use Linux is to go with AMD for your GPU (they're usually a better value anyway).
I wouldn't recommend any prebuilts, they're usually not a good value. Plus you can learn a lot about computers if you DIY and it can be helpful to diagnose in the future.
If you choose a case without a transparent side panel and ignore RGB and glamorous components, you can get better performance.
I'll have to play devil's advocate here, in that if you want to do AI and video editing, from my experience (as former editor for a YouTube channel), you'll need an NVIDIA card. I hadn't used an AMD card, though I'd imagine they'd be fantastic for the most part.
I don't understand. You say you need it, and then you say you've never used it. How would you know? I can confirm it's absolutely not needed. And it will only make shit harder.
That's why I said that I'd imagine that AMD would be really good based upon what I've read and watched on them. Granted, AMD would be good, but not for AI and video editing as far as I'm aware. That is only my experience with an NVIDIA card anyway, so maybe take that for what you will.
You're just contradicting yourself again.
I was making a point, which I don't think you see just yet. AMD and NVIDIA have their purposes, which is what I was attempting to point out.
Their point is how do you know amd is worse for video editing/Ai when you haven't used AMD for those things, only Nvidia.
AMD doesn't have the capability for AI necessarily due to CUDA requirements (though ROCm might fix some of that), and for video editing, my best educated guess has to do with graphically-intensive transitions and what not made in things like Natron (an AfterEffects alternative).
You're correct, I don't see the point.