Ubuntu (kde/4k)

[Stephen Partington]

This year will be very interesting as they are announcing that they are
opensourcing their graphics stack and investing heavily in software
development. We may see some significant changes in AMD graphics.
On Jun 22, 2016 11:47 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael at butash.net> wrote:

Ah, I meant more gpu really.  Nothing against their cpu's, but their
hardware and drivers in the linux video realm leave much to be desired.

Amd still lets the ATI division toward linux run like a bastard stepchild
to support the hardware with proper drivers.  With radeon oss drivers
surprisingly don't suck entirely now, despite amd inhibiting open support
for fear of opening features to competition.

-mb



On 06/21/2016 05:36 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

>
> AMD hell, huh?
>
> I'm writing this on a perfectly good AMD box, bought over Intel because:
>
> 1) ALL AMD processors can do hardware assisted VM. No need to carefully
>     look at specs to make sure you're not getting a no-VM cripple.
> 2) Cheaper
> 3) Subjectively, more reliable.
>
> There are all sorts of use cases, and I'd think that the use case of
> absolutely needing hardware assisted VM is probably much more common
> than needing more than 2x 4k monitors.
>
> I can understand your frustration at not being able to display a short
> book's worth of info on your monitor, but don't characterize it as a
> blanket indictment of AMD.
>   SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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