Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Read again, did not work on one distro, works on another, two days wasted trying to find a solution, works every time on Windows, no need to fiddle with anything and if I had issues I would have just went to the source (AMD) to get the drivers instead of entering stuff that I don’t understand in terminal. What’s safer your reckon?

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So you insist on using some distro where your GPU driver is broken. On the popular one it works just fine.

    How’s that a “Linux problem” again?

    Anyway, are you forced to use the broken distro? What is it? (If it’s Debian based, it should work just by installing the AMD firmware package. If it doesn’t, it’s because it’s badly maintained.)

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      … Ok so how did you guys pass your reading comprehension exams when you were kids?

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    OMG you’re not even talking about NVIDIA… 🤦

    My friend, AMD, the manufacturer that you trust, are the ones that maintain the open source drivers for Linux…

    You spent 2 whole days, yet never found that you can download directly from the AMD website? What exactly were you doing for those 2 days??? www.amd.com/en/support/…/linux-drivers.html

    …m.wikipedia.org/…/AMDgpu_(Linux_kernel_module)

    AMDgpu is an open source device driver for the Linux operating system developed by AMD

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’re already included in Fedora, nice try, I’m not an idiot.

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      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Now I just want to know what commands you thought you needed to run that you found randomly on the internet lmao, like what, you had to chmod +x the installer??

        It makes me sad that you’re totally soured on Linux now because you didn’t realize you could update your graphics driver or that it is officially written by AMD…

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      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I hate to say it, but… you sure about that? The Wikipedia article addresses this exact issue:

        As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script amdgpu-pro, distributed by AMD directly from AMD Radeon Software, ships an AMDgpu kernel module somewhat reliably more up-to-date compared to that of kernels shipped in regular operating system distributions.

        Yes, a version of the driver is included in the Linux kernel as part of Fedora, but it is likely slightly old and you can download the latest version from AMD.

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