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Linux has historically had issues with AMD/ATI cards.Radeon X600
Linux has historically had issues with AMD/ATI cards.
It's ridiculous, I was reading/watching information on switching to Linux and in 2018 it's still a thing!Still not good enough seeing as millions of thee must have been sold!
From what I've read Chris it's just AMD/ATI cards that have compatibility issues.All my mint machines are using the the onboard graphics chip.
Is nvidia ok with Linux?
Ah well that plan to escape Windows was short lived:
I downloaded two different distros of Linux.
Elementary OS - Was too basic, very pretty. But graphics did not work.
Then installed Linux Mint, it warned me that my graphics were running in "Software Rendering" and only had one monitor working.
Updated it, nothing, installed the latest Kernel and it broke it.
So back to Windows!
yup and Mint is probably the easiest of all - way simpler than Windows and almost never a reboot requiredUpdating is dead easy now.
Just click on an option in the Update Menu.
That's it.
That's my problem, I don't think my system is compatible fully. Without working graphics it's pointless.There is a lot of new hardware that is just plain Linux unfriendly and will probably never work - down to the bully boy tactics of Microsoft, to eradicate any competition for the hardware - ironically Microsoft are a big contributor to the Linux foundation these days after the departure of Steve Ballmer who always called Linux "a cancer". This in mind I may need to move to BSD.......
what is your system? Laptop or desktop? motherboard and cpu? graphics?That's my problem, I don't think my system is compatible fully. Without working graphics it's pointless.
I may revisit it when that's sorted. Also other things like Thundebolt 3 refused to work.
Desktop...what is your system? Laptop or desktop? motherboard and cpu? graphics?
It's always been a 2nd PC or a VM for me, never ready for Prime time. I thought in 2018 we would be there but seems notI don't believe Linux is fit for being a desktop OS. It has too many nuances and niggles for it to be reliable. I tried various flavours of Linux over many years but none fit the bill. Even the mighty Ubuntu sucks - I run the "update" on version 16 and it completely trashed the entire OS. It wouldn't even boot. The only way to recover was to reinstall.
If you have time on your hands and some computer knowledge (or at least an inclination to learn) - great. If you don't and you don't want to use Windows (and I don't blame you), get a Mac. Better yet, install MacOS on your PC - it is, after all, Unix based.