Re:Station X Linux Machines
by toyg on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:47AM
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GPUs seem to be the only remaining issue with OEM Linux laptops. I was almost ready to buy a Purism Librem last year after the sad MBP announcements, but I got cold feet because of that. I wish someone had the money to pay one of these companies to polish linux drivers and ship some decent GPUs.
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Re:Station X Linux Machines
by tankenmate on Thursday November 23, 2017 @11:04AM
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Well most Radeon cards work great with open source drivers, there is still the issue of closed source firmware however. But at least now the kernel drivers (kms, drm) are open source, the GL drivers (mesa) are open as well for Radeon. For some Radeon cards they perform better using the open source drivers than they do with the closed source ones.