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Ah man I had such a bad experience with ubuntu with my 3700x and 5700xt. Years ago I had issues with Nvidia and purposely went AMD at recommendations of AMD car

Ah man I had such a bad experience with ubuntu with my 3700x and 5700xt. Years ago I had issues with Nvidia and purposely went AMD at recommendations of AMD cards being better with linux. However most of the issues are just ubuntu. Switching to manjaro resolved 95% of my issues and steam out of the box ram games much better. Never tried fedora tho. No one has ever recommended that to me.

adingus 5y ago
I have a 3700x and 5700xt. I built the machine December 2019 and the hardware has performed perfectly on fedora since at least release 30.
- runjake 5y ago
  It's important for people to specify which 5700XT GPU, because there are minor variations (ROW, hardware, cooling, etc) between vendors that can wreak havoc if the drivers don't account for these variances. He even linked[1] the GPU issue he was having in the post. so he's not the only one. 1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1149 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1149
  - eptcyka 5y ago
    Could you provide some evidence for that statements? As long as the fan curves are good enough to cool the card, then nothing really should be different between different 5700xt cards.
hvis 5y ago
> Switching to manjaro resolved 95% of my issues and steam out of the box ram games much better. Was that just due to a newer kernel?
- philliphaydon 5y ago
  Possibly. The last version of ubuntu I tried was 20.10 and that was when I threw in the towel and went Manjaro. While on 20.04 I did attempt to upgrade the kernel which fixed some issues but introduced others. For me I just got to the point where fiddling and fixing was no longer fun and I just wanted to use my computer without it randomly freezing, rebooting, low FPS. I think if I ram ubuntu on my parents computer which is much older they would be totally fine. It’s definitely a lot better now than when I tried switching them 10 years ago. But for me it was a painful experience cos I like keeping my hardware current.
noobermin 5y ago
Ubuntu works for some people but it's super broken for others, it is strange for the most popular distro. May be it comes down to which version you use. I use Elementary OS on one machine which is based on an ubuntu lts version while I used ubuntu (albeit years ago) and issues I faced were much worse.
yxhuvud 5y ago
In my experience, with fresh AMD cards you will have to upgrade both kernel and mesa drivers after a fresh install of Ubuntu. This holds even if you install the .10 version. After that things work just fine. Though upgrading kernel was a bit of a ride the time when it wasn't even possible to boot to console with the freshly installed system..
wj 5y ago
I had issues as well with that card in 20.04. I did some research and there was a fix for my issue that was resolved in 20.10. I still have issues with the card gaming in Windows though. Not completely stable with some games and can’t play Elite Dangerous because it always crashes before I get out of training.

adingus 5y ago

I have a 3700x and 5700xt. I built the machine December 2019 and the hardware has performed perfectly on fedora since at least release 30.

runjake 5y ago
It's important for people to specify which 5700XT GPU, because there are minor variations (ROW, hardware, cooling, etc) between vendors that can wreak havoc if the drivers don't account for these variances. He even linked[1] the GPU issue he was having in the post. so he's not the only one. 1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1149 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1149
- eptcyka 5y ago
  Could you provide some evidence for that statements? As long as the fan curves are good enough to cool the card, then nothing really should be different between different 5700xt cards.

hvis 5y ago

> Switching to manjaro resolved 95% of my issues and steam out of the box ram games much better. Was that just due to a newer kernel?

philliphaydon 5y ago
Possibly. The last version of ubuntu I tried was 20.10 and that was when I threw in the towel and went Manjaro. While on 20.04 I did attempt to upgrade the kernel which fixed some issues but introduced others. For me I just got to the point where fiddling and fixing was no longer fun and I just wanted to use my computer without it randomly freezing, rebooting, low FPS. I think if I ram ubuntu on my parents computer which is much older they would be totally fine. It’s definitely a lot better now than when I tried switching them 10 years ago. But for me it was a painful experience cos I like keeping my hardware current.

noobermin 5y ago

Ubuntu works for some people but it's super broken for others, it is strange for the most popular distro. May be it comes down to which version you use. I use Elementary OS on one machine which is based on an ubuntu lts version while I used ubuntu (albeit years ago) and issues I faced were much worse.

yxhuvud 5y ago

In my experience, with fresh AMD cards you will have to upgrade both kernel and mesa drivers after a fresh install of Ubuntu. This holds even if you install the .10 version. After that things work just fine. Though upgrading kernel was a bit of a ride the time when it wasn't even possible to boot to console with the freshly installed system..

wj 5y ago

I had issues as well with that card in 20.04. I did some research and there was a fix for my issue that was resolved in 20.10. I still have issues with the card gaming in Windows though. Not completely stable with some games and can’t play Elite Dangerous because it always crashes before I get out of training.