Cosmic Cleric

Bummer. And I had such high/good thoughts about the Netherlands.

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You’re missing my point. AMD’s official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You’re almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

I’m using whichever one Proton/Steam uses. I’m assuming its AMDVLK because its the ‘official’ one. I think I remember RADV being switched away from in Proton a year or two ago, but don’t hold me to that. I checked my enviromental variable “AMD_VULKAN_ICD” but didn’t see it set to anything.

Whichever one I’m using, I get 120fps on my 3D games (playing No Man’s Sky and/or Baldur’s Gate 3 on the second monitor while typing) running them through Steam/Proton without a hiccup. Never a problem.

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lol! That nails it right there!

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Trying to figure out what kind of ‘buddy’ vibe they are trying to go for here, Frodo and Samwise, or Ren and Stimpy.

Gonnorhea and syphilis.

<slowly steps away from the keyboard…>

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Trying to figure out what kind of ‘buddy’ vibe they are trying to go for here, Frodo and Samwise, or Ren and Stimpy.

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Which country is that?

In case anyone was wondering, like I was.

And telling someone that ranks right up there in cringe as well.

GENERALLY SPEAKING, how about you just reply to the subject the comment is talking about, instead of just its footer?

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I urge you to read the letter. It will raise your consciousness a hundred times more than any conversation you’ll have on Lemmy today.

https://letterfromjail.com/

I’ll take a look.

I’m looking for a new gaming laptop. It’s impossible to find any with an AMD GPU here.

I did a search on “gaming laptop with amd gpu” in DuckDuckGo and got THIS link that listed gaming laptops.

I’m sure that if you take more time than you did to reply to me to look for them, you’d find them. Edit: Apologies, apparently the Netherlands are a no-AMD GPU in a Laptop free zone. My bad.

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AMD’s first party drivers are still garbage.

As I mentioned in my comment you replied to, I use Linux, and not Windows, so can’t speak (today) towards AMD’s Windows drivers.

For me, I let Linux worry about the drivers, so I don’t have to.

Best decision I’ve ever made, PC build wise. So nice to get away from NVidia and not worry about graphics drivers.

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You’re not wrong (as someone who has owned both cards) but lets be honest here, two generations ago AMD had HORRIBLE drivers/support, like epic-level WTFness bad.

They had a hole they dug themselves into to get out of, and I believe they have, and then some. But they are still battling that negative rep from that time. Some people still see them in that “hole”, flailing about, which is what I was initially pushing back against with the OP, to say that AMD is no longer in that hole.

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But only in a kind of theoretical sense. They think the status quo is best for everyone, but it’s really only best for them.

You’ll have to elaborate/defend that statement. I think you’re just imposing your own perspective/worldview without facts in evidence.

What is a more centrist sentiment than “our system may not be perfect, but it’s the best there is”?

That would be said by Leftists about a Leftist-bias system, or Rightists about a Rightist-bias system. What you described is not just in the domain of the Centrist. There are many “systems” that groups of humans gather around, and each system may look very different from other systems.

See Dr. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” for an eloquent condemnation of “moderates”.

I have not read this, so apologies if I get this wrong, but I will judge this sentence based on the overall message of your comment reply.

Being a moderate does not mean settling for whatever no matter what, no matter how harmful it is. Its about trying to have a consensus that most/all can live with, in how we run our society and how we act towards each other.

For example, if everybody agreed on Leftism, then should the middle of the Leftism population be condemmed (as they would now be the Centrists of Leftism)? Or Centrists of Rightism?

If human history teaches us anything, governing from the fridge/edges never works out well for everybody else.

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Maybe if you stopped putting the license in your comments, people would discuss the issues with you?

So, “blame the victim” then?

How about they just don’t bother commenting on it and let it go, and instead respond to the content of the comment itself, as it relates to the post being discussed? That way they’re not derailing the conversation.

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Yep, agree! Would definately LOVE to buy an Intel GPU if they could get their drivers up to snuff.

I’ve watched a few Gamers Nexus videos where the Intel guys are interviewed and talk about their drivers work, good stuff.

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lol the comments of the post you linked are saying that it’s completely useless

Its obvious you didn’t read the whole thing. The brigading was in full force on that post.

Try scrolling down, you’ll see the other side being expressed.

Also, here’s a comment from today (with my response) that describes the other side of the argument, in case you don’t want to be bother to relook at the original link, further down.

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I officially feel sorry for you now.

Thanks, appreciate that. Would really rather just talk about the issues being posted, thats for sure.

I’ve seen this happen to you multiple times now (in the same day!)

If you think today was rough, you should either check out this, or just wade through my comments from 9-10 months ago.

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Well I don’t game on Windows, so their Windows drivers could still suck. But I used to on my RX 6800 XT before switching to Linux, and I did not have driver problems with Windows at all.

My son had a 5X00 gen card, and he can’t wait to get away from AMD because of driver issues he’s having all the time, when playing LoL in Windows. I’m having a hard time convincing him to make his next card AMD because of that, even with all of the current Nvidia shenanigans going on. So, I do get where you’re coming from, drivers wise.

But all I can vouch for reliably is that my all AMD rig with a RX 6800 XT card works great, no driver issues/crashes. My biggest headache is sometimes having to select a different version of Proton for when I’m playing a game (thank god for protondb.com).

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AMD seriously needs to start taking driver support seriously.

That’s been an issue for them in the past, but not recently. Last I heard, the quality of their drivers has improved allot from two generations ago.

I game on an all-AMD Linux (Fedora/KDE) rig, and I haven’t had one crash with any game that I play (via Steam/Proton).

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and a waste of space on my screen.

Feel free to block me.

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