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AMD’s Linux graphics driver is getting too big for older machines (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Monolithic kernels and drivers are an issue.

I understand why its easy, but on Fedora Atomic I even have all the userspace drivers for intel, amd, nvidia and maybe more, even though I clearly just use intel...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the real issue. This is one area that Windows, despite its historical hardships, handles much better.

(Mac OS too but they killed kexts for the public anyway)

I'd love to see a more dynamic approach (that doesn't rely on DKMS) someday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I believe the advantage is that old drivers still work as they are all in the kernel. With them sharing much code it's not even that big of a disk space issue. Edit: A more dynamic approach would be great though, especially with this size issue popping up.

In a way it's great that I'm able to replace any part of my system and it just works without me having to make sure the old GPU driver doesn't leave some traces behind–altough while writing this the latter part shouldn't be an issue with Windows auto download and installation of drivers.

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