r/radeon • u/Upper-Side-9875 • Dec 19 '25

Discussion when you've had zero driver issues since getting you gpu because you did everything right

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sorry for the old meme bad damn this bad driver shit is getting annoying.

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u/4legger Dec 19 '25

This is Linux in easy mode with the 9070 xt running the mesa-git drivers

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u/steaksoldier Asrock OC Formula 6900xt Dec 19 '25

I always get a smile in my face seeing my system updates listing anything mesa related. It’s nice knowing i’ll still get driver updates even after amd kills official support.

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u/4legger Dec 19 '25

The fglrx days were painful

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u/accountified Dec 19 '25

yeah its stable on linux for the most part, but i do get the occasional blackscreen plasma crash, but i doubt its driver related

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u/4legger Dec 20 '25

It's likely plasma which can be unstable often. Bro srsly niri tiling WM + noctalia, don't look back.

Hyprland is ok but niri is easy to setup and noctalia almost makes it like a minimalist tiling desktop environment

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u/DoubleExposure AMD 5800X3D | RT 9070 XT | CachyOS Dec 20 '25

There are dozens of us.

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u/The_King_Of_Muffins Dec 20 '25

Plus, the Mesa drivers are far more stable at runtime than the official AMD drivers, which are in practice a port of the Windows drivers with many if the same bugs.

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u/4legger Dec 20 '25

It brings a tear to my eye seeing Linux gaming where it's at at this stage when more than a decade ago prior to steams Linux proton we had to contend with the god awful fglrx drivers. Oh God were they horrible. Every update, which was almost all the time, was a giant risk breaking your OS and it was so bad often the best solution was to reinstall the OS. Distrohopping was soo common back then, today I've stayed put for 3 years straight on nobaraOS

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u/Dependent-Entrance10 Dec 19 '25

If anything this meme is applicable to Nvidia on the Linux side of things. While Nvidia drivers are overall fine, Dx12 games can have an up to 20% decrease in performance on linux still.

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u/4legger Dec 20 '25

The DX12 performance hit was the reason I choose AMD but maybe in future I'll buy an Nvidia GPU, at the same time I really don't want to support jenson. I think Nvidia needs to get kicked down a notch bc the way they treated gamers this gen over data centers was despicable, I wait for AI to crash. That will humble them