Moving back to Linux

[SilicateWielder]

Hey guys,

 

I am contemplating making the move back to linux however, due to me using an AMD GPU and being unable to move to Nvidia due to money issues, I am in a situation where any Linux distribution I install will stop functioning after I have installed it.

 

I am currently considering using SUSE Studio to package drivers for my GPU with a custom distribution of Opensuse, however I have never had success getting a build from their site to boot.

 

Does anyone have any ideas on how one could achieve this?

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

Are you installing things on top of openSuse? 

 

How about using integrated graphics and then installing GPU drivers, then rebooting and use the GPU?

[/dev/God/Haruhi]

Or try Manjaro, they have an option to boot using proprietary drivers from live.

[Sintezza]

I could recommend to try something like Fedora25 or Korora25.

They have a newer kernel which should work better with non proprietary AMD gpu drivers.

Or any other (semi) rolling release distro´s that use later kernels then 4.4.x.x LTS.

 

As far as Open Suse is concerned, there are two main versions, namely Leap and Thumbleweed.

One of the two is LTS the other is Rolling.

 

[vorticalbox]

I am using mint (based on ubuntu 16.04 LTS) with a 7770. AMD official drivers (and by official I mean the CCC ones) are still stuck on 14 LTS maybe try that?

[SilicateWielder]

14 hours ago, bob51zhang said:

Are you installing things on top of openSuse? 

 

How about using integrated graphics and then installing GPU drivers, then rebooting and use the GPU?

Normally I would do that, the problem however is that I'm using an AMD APU.

[SilicateWielder]

3 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

I am using mint (based on ubuntu 16.04 LTS) with a 7770. AMD official drivers (and by official I mean the CCC ones) are still stuck on 14 LTS maybe try that?

I assume that you're using Mint 18? Were you able to use your GPU out of the box or did it require installing an unnoficial driver?

[vorticalbox]

17 minutes ago, UnbrokenMotion said:

I assume that you're using Mint 18? Were you able to use your GPU out of the box or did it require installing an unnoficial driver?

it worked our of the box with no issues. To make it worse I'm running a 8350 too

[SilicateWielder]

6 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

it worked our of the box with no issues. To make it worse I'm running a 8350 too

Ah okay. Yeah, I've been very worried about it not working once it's installed.

 

I'm gonna download now and attempt to install it.

[vorticalbox]

1 minute ago, UnbrokenMotion said:

Ah okay. Yeah, I've been very worried about it not working once it's installed.

 

I'm gonna download now and attempt to install it.

if it boots from a usb then it will normally work. If you have problems after then its probably some config or something. I have to add iommu=soft to grub cmd in order to get my network working.

 

took me days to find the right fix lol

[SilicateWielder]

23 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

if it boots from a usb then it will normally work. If you have problems after then its probably some config or something. I have to add iommu=soft to grub cmd in order to get my network working.

 

took me days to find the right fix lol

Welp the installation went smoothly, the only issue I really had was my WD RE3 driver not being mountable, but the guys on the official IRC channel helped me out with that.