I’m a 20yo, Hella Autistic, ADHD-riddled spaz that likes to tinker with programs and software settings alot. I’m building a pc for the first time right now, and while I am tech savvy; or more tech savvy than most; coding, programming, tech engineering is complete and utter gibberish, and it seems like the only people that use Linux are HEAVILY experienced with those things I just listed… HOWEVER… I’m not. I just like digging around various program settings or messing with things, or personalizing them as much as I can.

The more I delve into tech or tech related spaces; whether its through building my pc or just- using this website; the more people wont stop yapping about “OOH LINUX, I LOOOVE LINUX.” and every time I ask about it and why I should use it, they make it out like its an absolute godsend piece of technology (im sure it is tbh… it does look nice)

But then looking into it myself, all I see is a bunch of technical word vomit that makes no god damn sense to me. and the more I ask for people to explain this to me, the worse my confusion becomes. now I’m learning there’s like 40 different “Distro’s”… Someone else told me about Linux Mint, which looks nice, but again- I DO NOT want to be forced to use a terminal just to get the most outta my operating system. I like having some kind of UI to use.

idk man… from everything they say I can do with it, ESPECIALLY in terms of customization, I’m so tempted to use it. But my mental understanding of whatever tf Linux is, is at best a toddler’s.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      22 days ago

      Read again, did not work on one distro, works on another, two days wasted trying to find a solution, works every time on Windows, no need to fiddle with anything and if I had issues I would have just went to the source (AMD) to get the drivers instead of entering stuff that I don’t understand in terminal. What’s safer your reckon?

      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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        22 days ago

        OMG you’re not even talking about NVIDIA… 😳🤦

        My friend, I have wonderful news. AMD, the manufacturer that you trust to write the closed source Windows drivers, is the same one that officially maintains the open source drivers for Linux…

        You spent 2 whole days, yet never found that you can download them directly from the AMD website? What exactly were you doing for those 2 days??? https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/linux-drivers.html

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDgpu_(Linux_kernel_module)

        AMDgpu is an open source device driver for the Linux operating system developed by AMD

          • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            Now I just want to know what commands you thought you needed to run that you found randomly on the internet lmao, like what, you had to chmod +x the installer??

          • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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            22 days ago

            I hate to say it, but… you sure about that? The Wikipedia article addresses this exact issue:

            As AMDgpu is part of the monolithic Linux kernel, it is shipped by most Linux distributions directly. The package suite / install script amdgpu-pro, distributed by AMD directly from AMD Radeon Software, ships an AMDgpu kernel module somewhat reliably more up-to-date compared to that of kernels shipped in regular operating system distributions.

            Yes, a version of the driver is included in the Linux kernel as part of Fedora, but it is likely slightly old and you can download the latest version from AMD… you should probably go do this right now, because that is exactly how it works for Mint, too.

            Exactly like how they’re also already included with Windows, but you must go download from AMD to have the latest…

            Next time you need a graphics update, please don’t wipe your machine and install a whole different distro with crossed fingers that that distro will happen to use a kernel with a newer version of the driver 🤣 completely unnecessary. Just search “AMD linux driver” it is literally the first result, you had to have scrolled past it to find these random sketchy commands you were scared to run. Your GPU will work just as perfectly with Fedora as it does with Mint or Windows. I also use an AMD GPU on Fedora

            EDIT: Alright, I’ll admit that I was wrong about how updating it yourself is on specifically Fedora and that getting the driver direct from AMD website is going to be a huge pain if you’re not on the specific Ubuntu version they are supprting. That said, I’ve never seen a driver issue on Fedora with the included AMD driver, especially for 6XXX series AMD GPUs or later (5700 XT is a special case, AMD completely burned the people that bought that card, including my friend, and he only runs Windows)

      • marcos@lemmy.world
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        21 days ago

        So you insist on using some distro where your GPU driver is broken. On the popular one it works just fine.

        How’s that a “Linux problem” again?

        Anyway, are you forced to use the broken distro? What is it? (If it’s Debian based, it should work just by installing the AMD firmware package. If it doesn’t, it’s because it’s badly maintained.)