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I was tired of all the Bumblebee/Prime crap on linux that basically meant you left the high performing GPU on all the time and ignored the Intel graphics chips. Plus there have been many recent comments about how AMD is acting much nicer to the linux community in driver support, so I switched to a Ryzen 7 CPU w/ Radeon RX580 (4GB GDDR5)
I installed Linux Mint 19 (based on Ubuntu 18.04) on the new laptop. Oddly, when I click on the Driver Manager in the control center, it does not give me any option to install proprietary drivers. (not even amd-microcode) Also, lshw only identifies the hardware as a RX 480 series instead of the RX 580.
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480]
vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: c1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=amdgpu latency=0
resources: irq:65 memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f01fffff ioport:f000(size=256) memory:fe900000-fe93ffff memory:fe940000-fe95ffff
The question I have is, is it best to go and download the latest proprietary drivers from AMD's website? (I am assuming yes, and quite strongly.) However, I have heard that open source drivers for AMD GPUs is pretty good so I am not positive I should mess around.
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Tuubi's recommendations for PPAs are a good idea though, since you will want the latest stable version of Mesa (the open source OpenGL and Vulkan implementation) for games to run with the least amount of glitches and the most amount of performance. You might also want to look into updating your kernel, but for an RX580 that is not that necessary.
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I will avoid the proprietary drivers completely and add the stable PPA as suggested by tuubi and confirmed by Samsai. (I knew there was a reason to wait and ask here first :D )
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See: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/ukuu-easy-way-to-install-mainline-kernel-ubuntu
Not scrictly needed and might mess up your system ;)
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