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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by rkangel on Thursday April 26, 2018 @10:46AM (#16932302)
In general, if you want AMD or Nvidia graphics drivers then Windows is easier. If you want anything else (including Intel graphics drivers) then Linux is easier.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by hsivonen on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:16AM (#16932628)
Like Intel graphics, AMD graphics now work with Free drivers. The kernel just needs to be new enough to contain new-enough version of the driver, so in the case of Ubuntu 16.04, it was necessary to use the "hwe" package variants.
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by ben-schaaf on Thursday April 26, 2018 @11:04AM (#16932516)
I always find it funny how hardware manufacturers most of the time ship a bunch of drivers with their components. Windows drivers for wireless cards, motherboards, graphics cards, etc. Never needed any of those for Linux (The open source AMDGPU driver is good enough).
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Re:A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Be... by stubish on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:29PM (#16937745)
To be fair, I don't recall the last time I needed them with Windows, either. I think the CDs are for old versions of Windows, running on old machines that still have a CD drive.
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