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Are video drivers just guaranteed to be shitty in all cases? I can't use Ubuntu 16.04 because Radeon drivers cause constant, infuriating tearing on my screen a
by omegaham 10y ago
Are video drivers just guaranteed to be shitty in all cases?
I can't use Ubuntu 16.04 because Radeon drivers cause constant, infuriating tearing on my screen and the computer hangs on startup every other time I boot up. fglrx isn't much better, but it's at least stable.
- lj3 10y agoYou know, I don't know. Nvidia and Radeon GPUs are complicated pieces of hardware and, from what I understand, the drivers have more than a decade of development cruft built up. Contrast that with Intel graphics chips. I don't know if Intel's graphics chips are simpler or if their software devs are that much better or if they just haven't been around long enough to develop as much cruft. What I do know is I've never had an issue with an Intel video driver. But, an Intel GPU isn't going to let me play Doom 2016 on the highest settings either.