This was not my type of roguelike. I bet I wasn't alone in passing this title by.

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Quoting: GustyGhostOh and I almost forgot!: Raven Ridge (any TDP) is still unstable on Linux with AMDGPU. It is prone to hard lockups which require force reset and, to add insult to injury, Raven Ridge Linux systems often need to be booted several times before successfully bringing up a graphical session. It doesn't matter if you have kernel 4.15, 4.16, 4.17, AMDGPU is simply incomplete for Raven Ridge as of right now.

You're wrong, of course. I'm Running Mesa 18.2-rc3, git libdrm, and git xf86-drivers-radeon in Gentoo. Things have been rock stable for about two months now for non-git drivers. Make sure you have the latest firmware for Raven Ridge, and a 4.17 kernel or higher.

This should be another reminder that if you're going to use bleeding-edge hardware, you're gonna need to avoid Debian/Fedora for about 6-8 months. Gentoo is really your only shot in these instances. Expect this pattern to continue going forward with AMD hardware releases.

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