Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[O. Sinclair]

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On 03/11/2014 14:09, Jesse Palser wrote:
> 
> On 11/03/2014 07:07 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> On 11/03/2014 05:49 AM, Jesse Palser wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 11/03/2014 06:38 AM, Bill Vance wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Its been a little while, so I'll ask:  Has 14.04 improved to
>>>> the point where it treats AMD machines in a civilized manner?
>>>> I wouldn't mind upgrading, but I don't want to keep wasting
>>>> my time and effort on crap that won't work at all, let alone
>>>> work properly.
>>>> 
>>>> Bill
>>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> My AMD GPU constantly crashes Flash in Google Chrome, so no -
>>> nothing has improved....
>>> 
>>> :(
>>> 
>>> Jesse
>>> 
>> 
>> I find that Flash is poorly supported in Linux in general.
>> Sometime it will work and sometimes it won't. Pot luck. And, in
>> my opinion Google Chrome just plain sucks to start with
>> so................
>> 
>> Ever stop to think that maybe it's the software and not the
>> operating system/CPU that is the issue.
>> 
> Hi,
> 
> I never had problems with anything on my other desktop with
> Intel/NVidia. I blame AMD for my desktop's problems in Kubuntu...
> 
> Jesse
> 
I don't really "blame" anyone for my choice of distro. Since 12.10
Kubuntu my "hybrid" AMD/Intel GPU is not supported by AMD proprietary
drivers any more (though they claim it is on their website) and I rely
on vgaswitcheroo to disable the to me totally unneeded batterysucking
GPU I was sadly unaware was included on the HP laptop I bought.

Yes, it irritates me but I don't think I can blame AMD for something
that I am told works on other distros. Neither do I think I can blame
the Kubuntu packagers for the fact that Kubuntu is my distro of choice.

And that the Radeon devs dont put too much effort into the rather odd
hybrid-gpu thing I can actually also understand.
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