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AMD has had very good Linux graphics drivers for a while now. The last time I had to fiddle with graphics drivers, I was still using an Nvidia card. AMD just worked out of the box.

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This sadly doesn't match my lived Linux experience. The amdgpu drivers are absolutely abominable with Thunderbolt and regularly cause suspend/resume issues, even when the laptop has suspended while connected to the dock and resumed whilst still connected.

Beyond this applications like Firefox fairly regularly cease rendering frames for seconds at a time while various timeout errors are logged by amdgpu.

AMD have a lot of work to do to just to match Intel on Linux graphics driver stability.

Ryzen 6000 series user here. I run Arch and the past three years have been a roller-coaster. Suspend/resume works well but the amdgpu crashes are a constant pain. Sometimes it works well for a few weeks, until a kernel update introduces a regression. Regression that gets fixed after a few weeks. Rince and repeat for the past three years. I am seriously considering Intel for my next laptop.

> Sometimes it works well for a few weeks, until a kernel update introduces a regression. Regression that gets fixed after a few weeks

Overall the quality of software has decreased. People just don't care about testing and quality, when the bug can be fixed with the next release.

Personally I've had much more problems over the past 6-7 years with AMD's open source drivers than I've had with Nvidia's closed source drivers. Especially their Ryzen APUs have caused me so much pain.

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