I didnβt really have any issues in Fedora. I enabled the NPM repo in the settings then installed them. Easier than on Windows.
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And then you try a libre distro and realize you still need firmware with amd lol.
Libre distro just means hunting down firmware packages to get things to work .
Well from my my understanding the problem is that you can't pick and choose specific firmware to run on top of the libre kernel, cause they patched it in such a way that it doesn't really allow you to do it (not sure how it works specifically). I looked into this a bit cause i'm using gnu guix now, but pretty much the only firmware i need is the one for amdgpu. For everything else i could get by with the libre kernel, so i thought it would be neat if i could load only that one specific firmware, but it seems to only be possible to go full libre, or you just need to use the regular linux kernel with its firmware.
Edit: as i was typing this i realized that the nonguix kernel does differentiate between linux firmware and amdgpu firmware. I might have to try removing linux firmware to see if that works, cause if that's the case then i can pick and choose my specific firmware after all.
You might have to compile your own kernel to get this to work.
Itβs always that one firmware you need. Pure libre is only worth it for the ideologically pure, or if you just need a TTY.
Yeah i just edited my comment, i think the nonguix kernel might actually allow you more finegrained control over which firmwares you want to load. I'll have to experiment with that a bit.
Edit: can now confirm that removing linux-firmware from my config and only keeping amdgpu-firmware in it only loads the gpu firmware. Could easily tell because my wifi card on my desktop needs firmware, and it stopped working afterwards (i'll probably try to find the specific wifi firmware as well, but not a priority cause i pretty much never use wifi on desktop).
Stupid question but worth asking, has Mint caught up with the latest generation of AMD GPUs yet? I tried to install it as a first OS right after building my current PC when those cards came out and it... it did not go well.
That pretty much just comes down to the Linux kernel being used afaik.
So figure out which version of the kernel supports your GPU and compare it to the one that Mint ships with.
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I recall having fairly trouble free run with GF 1060 on Fedora on a desktop.
However having an AMD cpu and nvidia dgpu in a laptop is a fuckin' nightmare. Probably only Broadcom and Mediatek are more random when it comes to drivers. Good thing is that you can plop out a wifi card and get an Intel one for β¬20.
Edit: I also run Amd 6800 and 9070 in 2 desktops and that just work. I never had to care for drivers.
Unless if you have the random HP laptop where no Intel card works.
(I have this laptop, there's 2 ax200s that HP ships, one with Intel one with amd. No it's not CNVIO)
I had that on some lenovo many many years ago.. also lovely.
Luckily an EliteBook I got maybe 2 years ago allowed me to fix a bug in a wifi driver that mediatek introduced. There were workarounds, but fuck that. Ax200 fixed it.
Well, can't say for everybody, but i have no trouble running nvidia gpu on Hyprland with nvidia-open drivers. Haven't spotted any troubles with Plasma or MangoWC either, even though i haven't used them for as long.
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Nvidia is such a night mare on Linux