AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare

Re:AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare by atq2119 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @03:26PM (#36564784)

AMD GPU drivers come with Linux distributions by default. There's literally nothing you have to do, unless your GPU is very recent.

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Re:AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare by dietr1ch on Sunday July 02, 2023 @03:52PM (#36565010)

My gpu is quite recent and the only thing I had to do was make sure I'm running a recent kernel.

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Re:AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare by mort96 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @04:31PM (#36565370)

I also had to make sure I'm running a decent enough MESA and a recent enough llvm and a recent enough linux-firmware. It's not trivial.

But if you're on a distro with a recent enough version of those things, it Just Works.

I do wish distros like Ubuntu were more on the ball with regards to hardware support though. Ideally, someone running an up to date Ubuntu LTS should have a system which just works with new AMD hardware within at most a few weeks. It's currently a matter of many many months.

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