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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Back in June, my GPU runs perfectly fine on Windows and on Mint

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    and on Mint

    So it runs perfectly fine on Linux! That’s great news

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨year⁩ 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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      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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