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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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I am probably an anomaly here but I had a really bad experience with linux on an amd card. The card would not output at all whenever there was something linux related going on I could not fix the issue and it did not matter which distro I tried. Windows worked totally fine, the bios worked fine. I switched to my backup nvidia card and all of a sudden linux was working a treat.
I did have issues the first time I tried on my system, for whatever reason I could not output video unless I used software rendering.
Then a few months later I tried again and everything worked fine, so who knows.