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ive seen a lot of requests for an AMD version but i always see people complain about AMD's linux support. Do you plan on running windows? If you are planning on Linux is the support really as bad as people complain. I say that because intel's linux support seems to me as top notch. ive never really had driver issues that i can think of

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That's weird. I always see people claiming AMD is superior for Linux due to their opensource drivers (intel and nvidia are not).

btw certain distro devs were provided with Framework laptops a while back

https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop

Intel does write open source drivers for Linux. In my experience they are more reliable than AMD's.

I could only find open source drivers for intel graphics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_...

https://01.org/linuxgraphics

All of Intel's Ethernet/WiFi adapters have open source drivers on Linux too.

Hey, AMD (Zen2 3800X) and Linux (NixOS - 5.14.6) user here; other than a weird bug once on temperature reading I haven't had a single issue between Linux and AMD.

>but i always see people complain about AMD's linux support

No, you don't. You see people complaining about NVIDIA's linux support.

Oh I’m glad I don’t. You know what I dreamt it all up. Thanks for clearing that up. But honestly just subscribing to the Linux subreddit I see tons of amd gpu issues and never hear a peep out of Intel. But yes nvidia does win the prize for worst.

I've been runnning linux with AMD cpu/gpu for years, they tend to be late with initial stuff but other than that it's been a smooth sailing. That being said, it will differ from distro to distro, as some are unreadably slow with driver/firmware updates.

> i always see people complain about AMD's linux support

I've always heard the opposite, that AMD's linux support is amazing and that it's windows drivers are lacking. Especially in the GPU department where it struggles with minecraft.

This is true, AMD's GPU Linux drivers are open source and in superb shape nowadays (with the exception of freshly released stuff as there's always lag)

I dont know about laptops but I've been running Ubuntu on a ryzen 1600 since the couch came out and haven't had any issues.

AMD CPUs and Linux have always been fine for me. The GPUs on the other hand...

Since it’s a laptop then I could see that being an issue though. Intels embedded GPU I guess are slow and clunky but work super well in Linux in my experience.

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