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The problem with Nvidia on linux is the drivers. You're beholden to Team Green for driver updates, and when they decide not to support a GPU anymore, that's it. Now, linux does have the nouveau driver, but that doesn't support all the hardware or much 3d at all, and never will. 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Nobody is suggesting installing LTS on brand new hardware.", "context": "", "use_case": "AMD GPU kernel driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 742252081, "item_id": 46390755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46390755", "by": "avhception", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "their open-source amdgpu driver means I just plonk the card into the system", "excerpt": "Maybe it's just that you're mostly viewing this through the LLM lens? I remember having to fight with fglrx, AMDs proprietary Linux driver, for hours on end. Just to get hardware-acceleration for my desktop going! That driver was so unbearable I bought Nvidia just because I wanted their proprietary driver. Cut the fiddling time from many hours to maybe 1 or 2! 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Maybe you had a bad card. 0: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/4531", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Every GPU That Mattered"}, {"id": 750580800, "item_id": 46911300, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911300", "by": "bravetraveler", "date": "2026-02-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "modprobe http://192.168.1.1/amdgpu.ko", "excerpt": "modprobe http://192.168.1.1/amdgpu.ko Yea, same thing alright", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The RCE that AMD won't fix"}, {"id": 733720033, "item_id": 45857502, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857502", "by": "badsectoracula", "date": "2025-11-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the amdgpu driver causes the X server to hang after i suspend", "excerpt": "I've been using openSUSE Tumbleweed for years and while it is decently stable, it is far from perfect. For example i think the first issue any new user will face is with many codecs not being available in the official repository distros, making various sites (and video plays) unusable. The solution to that one is simple, add packman, which is a community repository that contains all codecs - but IIRC packman is not m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["amd gpu kernel driver"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087887", "title": "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672295", "title": "Every GPU That Mattered", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296849", "title": "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250538", "title": "Where did my 128GB of video RAM go? 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You're beholden to Team Green for driver updates, and when they decide not to support a GPU anymore, that's it. Now, linux does have the nouveau driver, but that doesn't support all the hardware or much 3d at all, and never will. I particularly got fed up with Nvidia on linux playing War Thunder - I had a regular crash that Gaijin and Nvidia ea", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"}, {"id": 762772032, "item_id": 47673252, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673252", "by": "MrDOS", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "warn", "quote": "The amdgpu driver had a major issue resuming from suspend a few months ago", "excerpt": "Still using my RX 5700 XT. The amdgpu driver had a major issue resuming from suspend a few months ago[0], but other than that, I'm not aware of (nor have I experienced) any stability issues. Maybe you had a bad card. 0: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/4531", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Every GPU That Mattered"}, {"id": 756775521, "item_id": 47298470, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298470", "by": "bsimpson", "date": "2026-03-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "That work lead to amdgpu/Mesa support", "excerpt": "If you read through the comments on the thread, that's actually why this works. AMD sold binned PS5 chips to crytomining endeavors. They resold the boards on eBay for cheap. So there's a history of people tinkering with rejected PS5 chips from cheap eBay purchases. That work lead to amdgpu/Mesa support, which is why this guy has raytracing on a real PS5. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/11982", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"}, {"id": 756013616, "item_id": 47250851, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250851", "by": "theChaparral", "date": "2026-03-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Adding amdgpu.gttsize=126976 and ttm.pages_limit=32505856 to the kernel parameters", "excerpt": "Adding amdgpu.gttsize=126976 and ttm.pages_limit=32505856 to the kernel parameters, while setting the VRAM in the BIOS to the minimum value, enables unified memory to work as expected on AMD Strix Halo running Linux. The https://strixhalo.wiki has most of the info you need to get LLMs running on these machines.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Where did my 128GB of video RAM go? 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Nobody is suggesting installing LTS on brand new hardware.", "context": "", "use_case": "AMD GPU kernel driver", "switched_from": "", "story": "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"}, {"id": 742252081, "item_id": 46390755, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46390755", "by": "avhception", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "their open-source amdgpu driver means I just plonk the card into the system", "excerpt": "Maybe it's just that you're mostly viewing this through the LLM lens? I remember having to fight with fglrx, AMDs proprietary Linux driver, for hours on end. Just to get hardware-acceleration for my desktop going! That driver was so unbearable I bought Nvidia just because I wanted their proprietary driver. Cut the fiddling time from many hours to maybe 1 or 2! Nowadays, I run AMD because their open-source amdgpu driv", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2"}, {"id": 733720033, "item_id": 45857502, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45857502", "by": "badsectoracula", "date": "2025-11-08", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the amdgpu driver causes the X server to hang after i suspend", "excerpt": "I've been using openSUSE Tumbleweed for years and while it is decently stable, it is far from perfect. For example i think the first issue any new user will face is with many codecs not being available in the official repository distros, making various sites (and video plays) unusable. The solution to that one is simple, add packman, which is a community repository that contains all codecs - but IIRC packman is not m", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"}]}