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  • If your AMD card is older than your latest linux distro release it’s plug and play, no driver installation required
    Wayland works pretty well on most desktop environments too

    beware fresh released AMD cards in combination with long term release distros like Debian stable, you most likely will need the driver from the AMD website (not recommended)

















  • People who deeply care about this typically use a distro which has a strong stance on FLOSS software like Debian or Fedora
    Arch Linux is more free on this as long as the user gets a more conveniant way to install everything (even proprietary software)

    the Arch Linux way however is also reading every PKGBUILD (where the license is stated) before installing and if you need to have an easier way to search through licenses just programatically solve this yourself i.e. by using https://github.com/archlinux/aur and going through all branches with a script



  • this task is easy on gentoo but hard anywhere else
    in the past I checked package updates via nvchecker, grabed the latest PKGBUILD via ABS, applied the patch, compiled the package and sent it to my custom repository
    if you add the repository higher in your pacman.conf it will grab it from that first

    but this a huge pita, even going through the route of maintaining an AUR package is simpler