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  • If your AMD card is older than your latest linux distro release it’s plug and play, no driver installation required
    Wayland works pretty well on most desktop environments too

    beware fresh released AMD cards in combination with long term release distros like Debian stable, you most likely will need the driver from the AMD website (not recommended)







  • People who deeply care about this typically use a distro which has a strong stance on FLOSS software like Debian or Fedora
    Arch Linux is more free on this as long as the user gets a more conveniant way to install everything (even proprietary software)

    the Arch Linux way however is also reading every PKGBUILD (where the license is stated) before installing and if you need to have an easier way to search through licenses just programatically solve this yourself i.e. by using https://github.com/archlinux/aur and going through all branches with a script



  • the Manjaro hardware driver setting is absolutely confusing or straight up misleading
    also hilariously easy to bork your system here if you ever think about trying the video-vesa driver for whatever reason

    the solution is to use the newest linux kernel and update all your packages (which updates Mesa and Vulkan tools) and afterwards rebooting (I still believe Manjaro doesn’t reload kernel modules on kernel updates automatically?)
    if you experience graphics issues switch between Xorg/X11 and Wayland compositor

    if you actually want worse gaming performance try the proprietary driver