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> Any of AMD's recent discrete graphics cards are very well supported. This is true and I'm a happy linux gamer these days but I wanted to point out that these
by flukus 9y ago
> Any of AMD's recent discrete graphics cards are very well supported.
This is true and I'm a happy linux gamer these days but I wanted to point out that these are new drivers and the mesa support is really only in new kernels. Ubuntu 16.04 - don't bother, Ubuntu 16.10 - getting there, Ubuntu 17.04 - worked great for me since day 1. Arch will also work fine.
- shmerl 9y agoGamers know to either use rolling distros, or to make sure to install recent kernels and Mesa from backports and etc. instead of being stuck on LTS kernel / drivers.
- slavik81 9y agoEven without going out of your way to get newer versions, the kernel and video drivers get updates on Ubuntu LTS releases as a part of the hardware-enablement stack. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
- shmerl 9y agoNot by default. Default updates are much slower than what might be needed for gaming. Rolling distros work better for this.
- microcolonel 9y agoOh, you're right. I always forget that I'm running Arch and building upstream drivers (also fiddling with development). Easy to forget to tell people that bit. :P
- majewsky 9y agoYou don't really need to compile upstream drivers for a good AMD experience. I have a Fiji card and have been running (also on Arch) stock drivers and kernels since around Linux 4.5 (when they merged powerplay support for Fiji into the amdgpu driver). Haven't had a single problem; just installed Mesa and xf86-video-amdgpu and everything just works.
- microcolonel 9y agoI have a Polaris 10 card, and I'm interested in build options which improve performance somewhat. The stable release works fine, but I have peculiar interests. ;- )