Debian 9 vs Ubuntu 18

[Brian Cluff]

On 09/04/2018 06:27 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:
>   as long as you stick with AMD or Intel graphics
> drivers (Nvidia graphics don't play nice with it, or else I would be
> using it too).

I've had exactly the opposite experience with nvidia vs amd... unless 
you are speaking about only using the open source drivers, then yes, amd 
works better, but if you use the closed source drivers then I've found 
nvidia to be the card that just plain works for everything.

I just recently bought a laptop with an AMD Radeon RX 580 on board and 
while the graphics worked fine right out of the box it was a complete 
nightmare getting a working openCL compute environment.  I've only 
recently got it working, so up until about a week about I had been using 
my 5 year old laptop instead because it had nvidia and just worked, even 
though I've had the new computer for 4 months.

For Intel drivers I whole heatedly agree, they are great right out of 
the box and just work, but intel graphics are quite a bit slower.

Brian Cluff