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Windows vs Linux (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Maven to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

FWIW I had to install newer drivers from a PPA because the latest stable Mint didn’t support my RX 7900 XT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't be a problem anymore, was only an issue with firmware when the card was super new

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

This was literally last week

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What version of mint? Why are they so incredibly behind? Hasn't been an issue on other distros for like a year

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

Mints default channel is based on Ubuntu LTS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So is my distro pop os 22.04, no issues

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pop!_os ships with specific kernel tweaks to make it play nicer with GPUs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In this case looks like they just go to the basic effort of updating the linux-firmware package

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Applause to them, even if that's all they're doing. For personal computing you can basically always count on Pop!_os to work no matter your hardware configuration (within reason, 32-bit machines aren't really something you need to consider anymore)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The latest LTS, currently 21.3