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Re:AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers by nickserv on Thursday February 11, 2021 @12:52PM (#26104782)
My driver experience has been overwhelmingly positive, but I do tend to run older (cheaper) chipsets.

On my work computer with a Ryzen 7 "Renoir" GPU the problem was not the drivers but the fact that the latest Ubuntu LTS ships with an older kernel, so having to run latest mainline.

I have a feeling this sort of situation will become more and more problematic, especially when new architectures are released. Somewhere the Linux community may have to step up for more easily having recent kernels.

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Re:AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers by pedrocr on Thursday February 11, 2021 @01:28PM (#26105277)
Ubuntu LTS already has the hardware enablement stack to solve this very issue. You stay on the LTS but get newer kernel/mesa/etc for hardware support.
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Re:AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers by volta83 on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:12AM (#26111632)
> I do tend to run older (cheaper) chipsets.

The experience of running old hardware on Linux is much better than that of running new hardware.

Except for certain products at least (I run latest nvidia compute cards and the drivers just work).

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