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So, I was originally just going with Mint 22.1, but I’m getting a 9070xt and see mint is only on kernel 6.8 which doesn’t particularly support it?

Is using it still okay? Should I go with Bazzite instead? Or something else. I’m fine with a little amount of work to get shit working nice and all, I am fine with figuring out how to use the terminal if needed and all, just want something stable to play games and other shit on. Mint sounded good, but not if it won’t support my GPU.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

Is there a particular reason you need an nvidia gpu? Like plans to do local LLMs or other projects that really require a nvidia gpu?

Because I am just so pleased with AMD for gpus in Linux. So simple.

Not knocking your choice, just trying to understand it. Everyone has valid reasons for why they choose their setups.

Edit: nevermind I am so confused by the new naming schemes I thought this was an nvidia, others have informed me its an AMD. Nevermind me I am a dingus.

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

9070xt is an AMD… it’s just new… and I’ve seen a lot of posts saying you want kernel 6.13 or higher for it, and mint 22 is using 6.8. (And that you want mesa 25 but I don’t think getting that’s an issue?)

(I realize AMD changing their naming yet again makes that confusing.)

[–] poinck@lemmy.one 1 points 3 days ago

You could try Debian testing. It currently has linux-6.12 on it and works flawlessly with my 6700xt.

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