Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
by pjmlp on Monday November 16, 2020 @04:01AM
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> Never tried it with an AMD APU, but I would hope it would be the same with the open source amdgpu driver.
It is a big regression that won't ever be fixed, OpenGL 3.3 instead of OpenGL 4.1 and barely working hardware video decoding.
Yep, it is a 10 years old hardware, yet Windows 10 drivers are perfectly capable of handling it properly.
Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
by 3np on Monday November 16, 2020 @02:55AM
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I did have some issues with getting proper utilization of a 3000-series APU on Debian stable. Eventually got it working but it did requires mesa > 20.1 and some specific version/params in kernel (can't recall exactly what did it).
In fact, AMD actively recommend you use the open source ones. I think the community radv vulkan driver also outperforms anything proprietary they offer.
Nvidia still requires proprietary out-of-tree drivers and causes breakage every so often, but AMD is just like Intel integrated graphics now. Never tried it with an AMD APU, but I would hope it would be the same with the open source amdgpu driver.