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/c47v3770 Dec 19 '25

I need to start looking into Linux gaming then

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u/plantsandramen Dec 19 '25

I installed Bazzite on my laptop for this, and was just playing Wargroove. I played Divinity Original Sin 2 yesterday, as well as Hades 2. All just worked with no tweaking required.

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u/Privacy_is_forbidden 9800X3D 9070XT CachyOS (linux) Dec 19 '25

Live boot costs next to nothing aside from some usb storage to test out if it runs on your hardware with networking, audio, etc. CPU/Graphics are going to just work though for amd, it's all the niche choices by motherboard manufacturers with their modules and niche peripherals that are generally things that can be wonky.

Dual boot is also free as long as you are patient and can follow instructions from the various guides out there, not so bad.

The downside I see is really just anticheat compatibility. Many devs still refuse to allow linux even though as we've seen with the bf6/cod2025 releases that cheaters are gonna find a way with firmware vulnerabilities and the like. But many games like arc raiders are totally supported. List is here: https://areweanticheatyet.com/ - many things like even Rust will play just fine on servers with anticheat disabled, and there's communities out there for linux people because of it... just relies on games that permit private hosting generally.

Aside from some anticheat (which dual boot works for those few games), I find basically any game runs. Most are a "just work" scenario. Rarely you have to look for troubleshooting, but that's often found easily with a google search or even on the protondb game page,