Quoting: TheRiddickGiving 5.9.0-9.1-liquorix-amd64 a go now, hopefully it isn't a bad performer.

I also gave it a go out of curiosity. Installed from their PPA, using the metapackages they recommended. The kernel crapped out right at the beginning of the boot sequence. I can't be arsed to dig further so I'll just stick to Mainline.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeYou almost need to be running a rolling release like Arch to be able to just pop the card in and have it go.

Sounds like a plan to me. Rolling release is where it's at when you're a PC gamer. Or, you can wait, I guess, and watch not only Windows gamers enjoy their AMD cards sooner but also other Linux gamers.

You're saying this like it's somehow a huge struggle, or a show of weakness maybe. :D

I pretty much never buy hardware before it's been on the market for a few months, or games on day one. For GPUs, good reasons to wait are lower prices, more third party models with perhaps better cooling options, more mature drivers etc. And games, well I'm not really into multiplayer, and it really doesn't matter to me if a single player game is brand new. I guess I'm patient. Not that it matters: A game that's a year old (or ten) is just as good as it was at launch. Or most likely better, with whatever patches, new content etc. that have been released since. And obviously it's cheaper as well.

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Quoting: tuubiYou never got your refund?

No. However, to be fair to Jolla (which they don't deserve, in my opinion) I do recall ticking the box that effectively meant that they should keep the money. I still had hopes that they could do good things with Linux. It wasn't so much the loss of the money, but the scandalous nature of their behaviour that annoyed me the most. Never again.

It's disappointing but maybe understandable that a small startup has trouble finding a foothold in this market ruled by a duopoly of giants. That said, I'm quite happy with Sailfish X on my current phone. Hopefully it'll still be an option the next time I need to buy one as well, or at least that there'll be a decent, supported Linux phone OS (with android app compatibility and a workable user interface) available for a reasonable price.

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Quoting: fnordianslipLooks nice, but since I got well and truly burnt by the Jolla Tablet scam, I won't be crowdfunding this.

You never got your refund?

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Quoting: slaapliedjeNvidia also supports their older cards for much longer than AMD/ATI has in general.

I think you'll find that the oldest AMD GPU drivers still included in upstream Mesa are for the R100-series from year 2000, whereas Nvidia current "legacy" driver series includes support for HW based on the Fermi architecture (2009) and later. But maybe you're comparing proprietary drivers only?

Nvidia's drivers used to be objectively better on Linux, but I don't think that's the case any more. My last Nvidia GPU was a GTX 960 and I was happy with it, but I've been even happier with the two AMD GPUs I've owned since.

These discussions tend to end up full of partisan hyperbole (often mostly based on hearsay), but in the end, both vendors are easy to live with these days for someone who just wants to play some games. No game requires the latest kernel or Wayland—so Nvidia's reluctance to play ball is almost irrelevant—but new kernels and Mesa packages are readily available on any mainstream distro for those who need them so us AMD/Mesa users are fine too.

That said, in my opinion and experience AMD currently has an edge on Linux even if you ignore the ethical and technical implications of Open Source vs proprietary. Personally I don't like to ignore these implications, so that's another reason I'm happier on AMD.

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Quoting: Avehicle7887Also you might want to make a backup of your xorg.conf file. In my case I also had to run "Xorg -configure" to create a new one to accomodate the AMD gpu.

You should simply remove the old xorg.conf file. You don't need one for AMD or Intel.

In case you want to fiddle with options (e.g. to enable TearFree), it's better to just create a new file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ containing nothing but the device section for the driver.

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Quoting: NanobangI love everything about Wayland, except that it doesn't play nice with Nvidia

Surely you mean you love everything about Nvidia, except that they won't play nice with Wayland? :wink:

The protocol is fine.

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Quoting: aokami

Quoting: tuubiSeems like they already did. According to the list of runners [External Link] on their site, there's a "lutris-5.21" version of the Wine runner available.

I was following Tanis' updates on the news channel of the discord, I might have missed that but that's great news. Linux translation layers golden age! :D

I rarely have any use for it myself, but Wine has certainly come a long way in the last few years.

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Quoting: aokamiHopefully lutris wine build will get passed wine 5.7 with recent fixes, lots of good news! :D

Seems like they already did. According to the list of runners [External Link] on their site, there's a "lutris-5.21" version of the Wine runner available.

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The first part was such a fun little romp that this sequel has been on my wishlist for a long time already.

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