Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I also went with an AMD APU, and had driver crashes for a long time when I was in video calls and it had to decode multiple streams. That thankfully stabilized with Linux 6.4.

Since sooo many people in the community swear by AMD, I thought “dammit, let’s try it again for my new desktop” and got an 7800rx … and I have to reboot ~5 times until I finally make it to a running xserver or wayland session. Apparently I am hit by this problem (at least I hope so). But that doesn’t even read nice … the fix seems to be to revert another fix for powermanagement. So I either have a mostly non-booting card or suboptimal power management.

I start to regret having chosen AMD … again :-/ I seem to be cursed.

  • the_q@lemmy.world
    23·
    10 months ago

    “I keep hitting myself in the foot with a hammer! Why does the hammer keep doing this to me!”

    • aksdb@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      If other people apparently have no probiems, it can’t be AMD in general. Never trying AMD because of a bad experience 10 years ago would also be extremely unwise. “We’ve always done it like this around here” is how you fall behind the times.