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.

  • haui
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    2210 months ago

    This reads like an alternate reality for me. I bought a new 3060 ti and using wayland with it is nearly impossible for me. I tried in ubuntu and had tons of errors and in debian/kde it wont even login without x11 enabled.

    When you go to protondb.com every game has tons of fixes for nvidia cards and every forum has fixes for nvidia cards while amd mostly works oob.

      • haui
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        310 months ago

        No. I‘m not being dictated by my gpu what OS I can use.

        Nvidia is just shit.

        • @AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
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          110 months ago

          The guy that’s shilling out cosmic DE is also a lead developer in the company making it lmfao

          Self shill lol

          • haui
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            110 months ago

            Yo… good eye. I cant believe how many people are just plain manipulative.

        • Michael Murphy (S76)
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          Then have fun with your bad experience. NVIDIA is working quite well in Wayland on COSMIC.

          • haui
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            510 months ago

            No I wont. I‘ll just sell the gpu at some point.

          • @narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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            110 months ago

            Great that it works well on COSMIC. They don’t want to use COSMIC and that’s their choice. You don’t have to be so salty about it.

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              What makes you think I’m “salty”? I’m not the one complaining about NVIDIA not working in Wayland, or saying that I’m going to sell my GPU.

              The only person who is salty is the one who would rather sell their GPU than use a Wayland desktop environment that supports NVIDIA as a first class citizen.