On 2022-06-24 at 16:13, piorunz wrote: > On 23/06/2022 20:40, hput wrote: > >> I'm an ubuntu user but spent several yrs as a straight Debian >> user. >> >> I know there is a level of sophisticated knowledge here and hope >> to find people who know which cards play well with linux >> (especially Debian derivatives like ubuntu.) >> >> I don't want to have to scrape around for drivers or find that the >> card is just not compatible. >> >> So anyone who has something to say, especially from experience on >> this please consider responding. > > For years I've been using Radeon cards in Debian. That's what I can > recommend to you. Drivers are in the repository so you don't need to > do anything. With Ubuntu you will probably get even better support > than I have in Debian.
I concur: Radeon is where it's at for good performance on non-proprietary drivers nowadays. > So get yourself a Radeon card for your budget, newer the better, I wouldn't go *quite* that far; my understanding is that, especially if AMD has recently released a new Radeon model series, the *very* newest may not have its drivers available yet - or they may at least not be in the repositories. I haven't gone digging to validate this before posting, but I suspect the rule to go with is: look at the release date of the model series you're considering, find out what the version number of the next Linux kernel release made after that date is, and make sure that you have that kernel or a newer one available to run on your machine. (You'll also need to consider Mesa support in some cases, but that's more complicated to track, and I haven't found doing so to be worthwhile for general assessment vs. just tracking the kernel.) For myself, I generally stick with the "best bang for the buck" Radeon GPU from whichever generation is the next-to-latest at the time of purchase. In my case, I'm currently running a Radeon RX 5700 XT, which fit that criterion when I went to build this machine, and once I worked out what group membership I needed to have in order to access the correct device nodes I've had no trouble with it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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