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Segfaults on proprietary AMD hardware every 10 minutes? Why do people even bother to release something like that? I understand that AMD drivers are a pain and I
by pmr_ 15y ago
Segfaults on proprietary AMD hardware every 10 minutes? Why do people even bother to release something like that? I understand that AMD drivers are a pain and I understand that you sometimes want to get a feature out into the open to gather feedback, but if you break too many people in horrible ways you lose users and that is the opposite of what we want. We want more users and especially new users, and those are easily scared by unstable core components. There is a set of people that are looking for the latest fancy desktop technology available, but those shouldn't be the primary concern of projects as huge as Gnome.
- keithpeter 15y agoRHEL 6 and the clones, and Debian stable, are fairly solid on most hardware I believe. Its worth mentioning that Ubuntu 12.04 is still in testing.
- adambyrtek 15y agoDebian doesn't ship with proprietary drivers, so it's not a valid comparison.
- keithpeter 15y agoYou are correct in stating that Debian does not supply proprietary drivers on its installation sets. I was, however, able to get the nvidia proprietary drivers installed in about 10 minutes including download time on our somewhat slow broadband. I believe but can't confirm that the same is true for AMD drivers. So my 'comparison' is valid: if you need stable, use an RHEL clone or Debian or openSuse.