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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

All I need to know about AMD is this:

Whenever amdgpu.ko is insmoded, the display (or the system itself in some cases) is unstable. When it works great now, one day it won't and the machine will inexplicably start crashing randomly or displaying garbage after an update.

This has held true for years for me on many machines I've installed Linux on, and it still does: not a week ago, I updated a laptop with a Renoir chipset in it (RX Vega 6) that had been stable for years, and now the display gets corrupted whenever I switch VT. Because amdgpu...

Not bashing on AMD or Nvidia. This has just been my reality. As a result, whenever I have a choice, I go with Intel graphics because it never causes me as much of a headache.