I hear it every time: But Muh Windows is better, because you dont have to install Drivers!!!11!11elf
And every time I have to force myself to tell them that its even Easier to install drivers on Linux, because you dont even need to know if you have an AMD or an Nvidia Card, you just open the Software and click on the recommended install
Recently built a PC with an AMD GPU. Tried to figure out how to install AMD drivers, because Mint’s driver manager didn’t seem to offer anything like it would for nvidia… Turns out AMD drivers are just part of the Linux kernel and you don’t need to install them at all. Nice.
I did have one problem though - my hardware is too new and the kernel shipped with Mint doesn’t really support it yet. But it was surprisingly easy to install a newer kernel. And anyway for any PC that doesn’t use bleeding edge hardware, this would never be an issue.
<3 Mint and Linux
@NeatNit @Luffy879 There is amdgpu-pro driver, but anyway it use opensource kernel driver. So it’s just ubuntu kernel little outdated
And now AMDGPU-PRO has dropped the proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers and AMF, so the only thing you would get from it that’s different from the open stack is the OpenCL driver and maybe AMDVLK. https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-AMDGPU-UNIFIED-LINUX-25-10-1.html
You can use AMDVLK with the mesa just fine
@NeatNit @Luffy879 also, many years ago there was closed-source ATI fglrx driver, which required disabling many kernel features. amdgpu-pro is still may contain some parts from fglrx and mention ATI technologies, but now amdgpu-pro not used anymore in most configurations…