Never once had a driver issue on Mint. Literally did an entire rebuild (mobo, cpu, gpu, the works). Switched it on, everything worked perfectly, no OS reinstall or driver hunting.

Any issues I’ve heard about, the main culprit is nvidia cause of proprietary crap. Move to AMD graphics and it’s literally plug and play.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never had any problems, just avoid the biggest GPU manufacturer? It's Nvidia's fault to supply shit drivers for Linux, but statements like this highlight how far away we are from "the year of the Linux desktop".

[–] averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I run nvidoa and have zero issues

[–] teichflamme@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had an AMD graphics card like 8 years ago and I couldn't even install Linux. It crashed within the installer every single time.

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It changed around RDNA I think? They pushed a new driver stack that works on all FOSS software and then offer their proprietary driver as an optional firmware blob.

Since they open source kernel space driver uses the same interface for both you don't get a degraded experience on either.

This new driver amdgpu (and amdpro) replaces radeon.

[–] teichflamme@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, that's good to know. I've dabbled around with different distributions on VMs but now I feel like it's to convenient to just set up a new vm when I want to do something