Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it

Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by duttish on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:19PM (#46458746)

I've been on Linux desktop for ages, but it's not quite stable enough that I can recommend it to anyone. Space Marine 2 was the first game in quite a while than didn't just work out of the box, but...

E.g three weeks ago nvidia pushed bad drivers which broke my desktop after a reboot and I had to swap display (ctrl-alt-f3 etc), I never got into gnome at all, and roll back to an earlier version. Automatic rollback of bad drivers would have saved this.

Are Radeon drivers less shit?

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by keyringlight on Thursday January 01, 2026 @06:31PM (#46459408)

It might depend on the distro, but were you running a 10 series or earlier? They dropped Pascal and earlier CPUs with the v590 driver, I know Arch migrated what the nvidia package installed in such a way that could leave someone without an appropriate driver unless they manually moved to a different source.

Then again Arch is one of those distros that has the attitude that you need to be a little engaged/responsible for ongoing maintenance of your system, which is why I'm against blind "just use (distro)" recommendations unless it's very basic and low assumptions about the user.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1prm8rl/archanno...

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by duttish on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:01AM (#46462176)

I'm on bog standard Ubuntu (25.04 maybe?) because it's what I know and I don't really care about it as long as it works. Which... well, seems above :}

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by mrkeen on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:53PM (#46459083)

I've had mixed experiences with AMD. Back in the day - a bit after Linus told Nvidia to fuck off - I tried to get my Radeon 5850HD (i think?) working on Ubuntu. It was one of those things I spent the whole weekend (OS reinstalls really add up) trying to make work, to no avail. Relative to that nonsense, the equivalent proprietary Nvidia driver just worked after being installed.

A couple of months ago I bought a second hand RX 7800 XT, and prepared myself for a painful experience, but I think it just worked. Like I got frustrated trying to find out how to download and install the driver, when I think it just came with Linux Mint already.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by diabllicseagull on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:23PM (#46458790)

I've been using a full amd build with arch on it for years now. never had graphics related issues after an update. my biggest gripe is with the hdmi organization and how we can't have proper support with open source drivers.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by Dodrekai on Saturday January 03, 2026 @05:54PM (#46482560)

Yes they are less shit for most people. I'm on PopOS and had both a 6650xt and a 6900xt. Almost all games works to the point Linux compatibility as become an afterthought for me now. The main tinkering is selecting a version of Proton or ProtonGE.I feel I have to do this less and less.

It's seems to be what most of AMD card experience, but i didn't dig on numbers.

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