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i tapped on the easy button the last time i wanted a new linux rig and bought a linux laptop from a linux company with its own os and its own paid developers and i've learned recently that it's made me unaware of the state of ATI and linux compatability vs nvidia's. what's your take on the state of affairs now?
i went with the easy button because of my experiences with nvidia and especially on my laptops; but my klutzy self has made getting a new one a necessity and i'm thinking that i'm going to go with AMD/ATI next time and do it the hard way like i used on a windows laptop; or maybe a mac.
that dated comment was right and i hit that easy button five years ago. also i'm realizing now that doing so has completely removed me from the discourse that happens nowadays when it comes to gpu's and linux.
amd had already bought ati by the time i hit that easy button and that distinction that i used wasn't out of place at the last time i was paying attention and participating; or atleast wasn't so in my experience.
there used to be lists of rankings for compatibility for nvidia drivers and open source drivers as well. i wonder how i would go about finding the same for amd.
For AMD, it's literally just make sure
mesais installed (it is by default on most distros), make sureradvis installed (it is by default on most distros), and then go.From there, if you are gaming, you handle whatever your games need like enabling 32-bit libraries for Steam if your distro doesn't by default, or doing whatever WINE or Lutris wants you to do.
Done.