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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/binarskugga on 2025-04-01 23:23:19+00:00.
I thought I'd share my experience using Fedora 42 with the latest AMD hardware.
While not perfectly smooth the experience has been enjoyable. I have had more issue with my MB (MSI MAG Tomahawk x870) than the graphics themselves. Overall mesa 25 with amdgpu drivers has been really stable with the 9070.
Playing games is basically a no brainer, I have tried BG3, Elden Ring, Grim Dawn and PoE 2 for now, all with no issue whatsoever. When installing Steam, I couldn't have a stable experience until I deactivated the GPU accelerated web view, this worked with my older card (5700XT). I also can't use my dGPU with any Flatpak for some reason, I think it's because of the way it's being isolated ? (not very knowledgeable on this stuff).
Proton also seem to be confused sometimes and I have to switch back and forth between Hotfix and Experimental or the game just boots with graphical glitches everywhere. This happens regardless of the game in my experience, it seems to keep a state that is reset when switching versions.
The drivers for my ethernet and wifi (Realtek' RTL8126 5GbE Controller) seem completely broken/unstable. Using Fedora 41, only my wifi works and the ethernet works only after the initial sudo dnf update. While on 42, the wifi will not work but ethernet has been flawless. This led to a funny moment where I had to manually update the Linux Kernel after I installed Fedora 39 thinking an older version would fix it and both didn't work haha. I had some issue with bluetooth and an old pair of Bose headphones, my newer heaphones work without problems though.
I have activated both the CPU boost (PBO) and AMD EXPO in the Bios without issue.