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That's less than perfect there... I bought an RX 5700 XT in October when I built my desktop. I had lots of issues over the months until around February where i

That's less than perfect there... I bought an RX 5700 XT in October when I built my desktop. I had lots of issues over the months until around February where it finally seemed stable (on updated Kernel releases, and having to sometimes download the binary driver modules). Even then, I had trouble with even trying VMs as nothing supported the ahead of mainline kernel I needed for my video card. Now, 20.04 may be miles better and much more stable overall, still well behind the kernel I'd been running. Just saying it isn't a panacea at all. NOTE: Since early march, I've been mostly on Windows in support of a couple legacy projects.

stepbeek 7y ago
I moved my 5700xt into a purely for fun gaming pc and replaced it with a 1050 in my dev machine. I had the exact same experience, but in December gave up on having linux play nicely with Navi for the time being. I will readily admit to being an AMD fanboy, but Nvidia is really besting them at the software game. My 3700x CPU has been dreamy from day one.
- waheoo 7y ago
  This has more to do with market dominance and standards compliance of nvidia than anything else. Nvidia does its own thing game devs compensate, amd gets a shafted experience and looks like its their fault.
  - stepbeek 7y ago
    Could you elaborate? I would have thought that AMD would be invested in offering comparably good drivers. I'm not taking issue with a game not performing optimally. I'm taking issue with a reasonably common desktop environment (Ubuntu 18.04) proving unstable.
    - waheoo 7y ago
      They create better drivers. Nvidia dont adhere to specs. Amd does. Developers develop for nvidia. Problems ensue for amd users.
waheoo 7y ago
Do you recall which kernel you were using? I was forced to grab a 5700xt because of stock problems but it would have been around the same time. I had one big deal breaker problem but i only had to run a mainline kernel build to tie me over. In anycase, this sort of thing is standard for new hardware, always takes a couple months for linux to catch up.
- tracker1 7y ago
  I ran ubuntu lts for a while with the amd drivers, then an update broke that (black screen)... by then popos 20.10 was out, and that mostly just worked... I had a couple issues and went up through kernel versions (MB also had Intel AX 201 wireless), so between the two, I paid for Ukuu and just stuck to the latest... around late January, no more issues. Of course then I needed to do some work in windows, and couldn't get any VM software working with the ahead of mainline kernel I'd been using. I understand the why, just was frustrating and less than ideal.

stepbeek 7y ago

I moved my 5700xt into a purely for fun gaming pc and replaced it with a 1050 in my dev machine. I had the exact same experience, but in December gave up on having linux play nicely with Navi for the time being. I will readily admit to being an AMD fanboy, but Nvidia is really besting them at the software game. My 3700x CPU has been dreamy from day one.

waheoo 7y ago
This has more to do with market dominance and standards compliance of nvidia than anything else. Nvidia does its own thing game devs compensate, amd gets a shafted experience and looks like its their fault.
- stepbeek 7y ago
  Could you elaborate? I would have thought that AMD would be invested in offering comparably good drivers. I'm not taking issue with a game not performing optimally. I'm taking issue with a reasonably common desktop environment (Ubuntu 18.04) proving unstable.
  - waheoo 7y ago
    They create better drivers. Nvidia dont adhere to specs. Amd does. Developers develop for nvidia. Problems ensue for amd users.

waheoo 7y ago

Do you recall which kernel you were using? I was forced to grab a 5700xt because of stock problems but it would have been around the same time. I had one big deal breaker problem but i only had to run a mainline kernel build to tie me over. In anycase, this sort of thing is standard for new hardware, always takes a couple months for linux to catch up.

tracker1 7y ago
I ran ubuntu lts for a while with the amd drivers, then an update broke that (black screen)... by then popos 20.10 was out, and that mostly just worked... I had a couple issues and went up through kernel versions (MB also had Intel AX 201 wireless), so between the two, I paid for Ukuu and just stuck to the latest... around late January, no more issues. Of course then I needed to do some work in windows, and couldn't get any VM software working with the ahead of mainline kernel I'd been using. I understand the why, just was frustrating and less than ideal.