How is what it’s doing in this case stupid?

But also it has been accepted by the “community”, by and large.

How does Linux it self or some other software on Linux address what Crowd Strike is doing for Windows?

Well, it usually drops to a black screen and kernel panics, but lately there’s been a bit of a push for parity with windows.

Do you mean it constantly does it when a monitor is turned off or that when you initially turn off a monitor, it rearranges all windows to fit on the remaining monitor.

If the first, I’m not sure what the problem might be, but the second is pretty normal, I think. The card sees that the display was detached and moves your windows to the attached display so you can see them.

If you were missing firmware, that’s not actually a driver issue. You do need the firmware and (unless you also installed the professional drivers as well) you should be all good now and using the full open source stack.

Anyway, glad to hear it’s working for you!

So…what can I do? Neon is mostly Ubuntu 22.04 to most effects. Kernel is 6.2.0-36-generic.

The kernel in use should support RDNA3, I believe.

Edit: judging from the comment made a bit ago, it wasn’t the kernel or mesa, they were just missing the firmware. And yeah, that’ll do it. I remember being frustrated with my 7900xtx not working on Pop! before I pulled in the firmware back on release.

As others have said “Ya doin it wrong!”

AMD has the AMDGPU kernel driver already in place in the linux kernel, and excluding the newest generations of cards for about a month or two after they come out, that part should work fine. Additionally, you need Mesa installed for the userspace drivers. It is typically preinstalled and covers the OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for your card.

Pretty much the only time you want to run the driver from AMD’s site is if you’re using some particular professional applications, otherwise Mesa tends to outperform it. There are relatively few games that AMDVLK (the AMD official open source Vulkan driver) is ahead, and it’s got an edge in most (all?) raytracing cases currently.

Lastly, the reason it doesn’t work is because the driver install script is checking your os-release version to see if it matches the Ubuntu version it was packaged for. If you’re confident that you can fix any problems that arise from doing this, you could presumably just change the string in /etc/os-release to match what it’s looking for. I don’t recommend doing this, though, unless you don’t care if the drivers break things because they weren’t packaged for the release you’re using.

The easy way is to install Proton-GE

You could also look up mfplat with winetricks/protontricks, but GE typically works and is much simpler.

I like Linux better

All the other reasons don’t really matter.

At one point their AMD driver managed to uninstall itself somehow.

Yup, that’s windows. AMD tends to release most of their drivers without WHQL certification (think, final drivers, just without Microsoft signing off on them, so they get out faster and (presumably) slightly cheaper).

Windows sees this and thinks “Hey! This driver doesn’t have our stamp of approval! Let’s help this dumb user out and ‘update’ it to the latest one that does!”

Unfortunately, this not only puts you on an old version, but now the adrenalin software sees that the driver doesnt match its install and doesn’t let you use those features.

God I hate windows >.>

You didn’t mention it in your post, did you make sure you set proton to run for non-verified games in steam settings? Also did you try proton experimental and/or Proton-GE?

HUMANKIND seems to be a mixed bag but the others are reported to run well.

No, you still need display output of some type

I believe it’s talking about This MSI card, which seems to be prebuilt only? Or maybe the Sparkle Genie A380, which, again, doesn’t seem to be available yet.

It’s not actually available (yet), but why not consider a low profile A380 like this

Relatively cheap, open source drivers, and hardware encoding up to and including AV1.

Edit: oh, and supported on jellyfin. I have mine running on truenas in a fedora 38 VM by passing the GPU through(Truenas scale is running kernel 5.15, so doesn’t have native support).

This is software based, right? I doubt it’ll ever be turned on by default (also doubt anyone would want it on for the hit)