Posted May 27, 2017
Matruchus: As said I recommend the distribution to all AMD users since LTS versions of Mint and Ubuntu do not carry up to date drivers for AMD graphical cards.
Hello, this is argument absolutely not correct. I use KDE Neon user edition, which is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
- It adds cutting edge KDE/Plasma application, its Plasma 5.9 here.
- the libraries are well-updated using built-in backports repo.
- its possible to install whole range of kernels using LTS, HWE(equivalent of BPO in Debian) or Mainline versions.
- user applications are well-updated using backports, webupd8 ppa and getdeb repo.
- graphics driver stack is available via daily updated oibaf(1) and padoka unstable(2) PPA or discretely updated padoka stable(3), which also offer gallium9 wine PPA.
- finally I use a few ppas from application developers themselves.
So it comes to package management, and in this regard the "apt/dpkg" with its hook system is much more automatic/safe, than stock pacman.
The problem is that Arch upstream often relies on changelogs to inform users to manually change things in system configuration files (like passwd, grub.cfg(.d), sysctl.d/ ), where Debian/Ubuntu use dpkg to do this automatically.
So even if Antegros implements pacsave 4-way merger, users are still required to read changelogs and modify their system manually - and Arch updates at far more frequent rate (not version) than Ubuntu.
Here is glxinfo|grep -i opengl:
penGL vendor string: X.Org
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on AMD TAHITI (DRM 2.46.0 / 4.8.0-53-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 17.1.1 - padoka PPA
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 17.1.1 - padoka PPA
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 17.1.1 - padoka PPA
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.10
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
Post edited May 27, 2017 by Lin545