The default driver used by Fedora is RADV.

Alright. I remembered them switched around, but there was a migration a year or two ago from one to another, default wise.

Help me with >THIS< then?

This suggests that both (most/all??) are bundled, and you could even run one program in one driver and another program with the other driver.

This was mentioned in that post/thread as well …

Also if you use AMD card RADV is the best for gaming and it’s the default for most distros so it’s an out of the box experience

Its also mentioned that environmental variables can be set at runtime to switch on the fly (at program startup) which is used. I just don’t know if Proton does any of that for you under the covers at startup or if you have to manually add the parameters to the properties for the Steam game to force it to use another one.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

You’re missing my point. AMD’s official Linux drivers are ALSO garbage. Try it. Go install AMDVLK and check how well games work. You’re almost certainly using RADV, which was not developed by AMD.

I’m using whichever one Proton/Steam uses. I’m assuming its AMDVLK because its the ‘official’ one. I think I remember RADV being switched away from in Proton a year or two ago, but don’t hold me to that. I checked my enviromental variable “AMD_VULKAN_ICD” but didn’t see it set to anything.

Whichever one I’m using, I get 120fps on my 3D games (playing No Man’s Sky and/or Baldur’s Gate 3 on the second monitor while typing) running them through Steam/Proton without a hiccup. Never a problem.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

From the article …

Although many ad-blockers have migrated to Manifest V3 versions, these are generally less capable of detecting and blocking promoted targeted content.

Although Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari have all adopted MV3, they have done so with their own implementation modifications, allowing users greater freedom while still benefiting from the security enhancements.

Still, support for MV2 is the only way to go for older add-ons, and Firefox reiterated via an announcement today that it will continue to support it in the foreseeable future.

“While some browsers are phasing out Manifest V2 entirely, Firefox is keeping it alongside Manifest V3,” said Mozilla.

Glad to hear Firefox is doing the dual-support thing.

Because.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

AMD’s first party drivers are still garbage.

As I mentioned in my comment you replied to, I use Linux, and not Windows, so can’t speak (today) towards AMD’s Windows drivers.

For me, I let Linux worry about the drivers, so I don’t have to.

Best decision I’ve ever made, PC build wise. So nice to get away from NVidia and not worry about graphics drivers.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

You’re not wrong (as someone who has owned both cards) but lets be honest here, two generations ago AMD had HORRIBLE drivers/support, like epic-level WTFness bad.

They had a hole they dug themselves into to get out of, and I believe they have, and then some. But they are still battling that negative rep from that time. Some people still see them in that “hole”, flailing about, which is what I was initially pushing back against with the OP, to say that AMD is no longer in that hole.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

I’m not talking about sentience per se, but how any “AI” would think, lookups (LLMs), vs synthesized on-the-fly thinking (mimicing the human brain’s procesing).

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Well I don’t game on Windows, so their Windows drivers could still suck. But I used to on my RX 6800 XT before switching to Linux, and I did not have driver problems with Windows at all.

My son had a 5X00 gen card, and he can’t wait to get away from AMD because of driver issues he’s having all the time, when playing LoL in Windows. I’m having a hard time convincing him to make his next card AMD because of that, even with all of the current Nvidia shenanigans going on. So, I do get where you’re coming from, drivers wise.

But all I can vouch for reliably is that my all AMD rig with a RX 6800 XT card works great, no driver issues/crashes. My biggest headache is sometimes having to select a different version of Proton for when I’m playing a game (thank god for protondb.com).

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

AMD seriously needs to start taking driver support seriously.

That’s been an issue for them in the past, but not recently. Last I heard, the quality of their drivers has improved allot from two generations ago.

I game on an all-AMD Linux (Fedora/KDE) rig, and I haven’t had one crash with any game that I play (via Steam/Proton).

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

I can’t wait for Intel to step up their game and for AMD to reengage. We really need the competition.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Well, I was saying that mostly in jest (hence the 😜 ).

Take care.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Ah. Well, I have questions or comments I could make about the license.

A little passive-aggressive of you 😜 but I’m betting you could find answers to your questions if you looked through my comment history, starting about 10ish months ago. There was ALLOT of conversation about it at that time. You’d probably also see the kind of comments you’d make already made as well, saving you some time.

However, while I feel passionately about Unix and Linux and OSS in general, I don’t think I have anything useful or interesting to add to the thread that hasn’t already been said.

That’s fine, I didn’t mean to suggest that you personally (vs others) had to comment on the subject at hand, just that I wish I would only have to respond to comments of the subject at hand.

I wish you luck both with finding engaging conversation and with your licensing.

And may you have a GREAT day today!

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Arguably the point of having machines do the work for us is that they’re NOT sentient.

Is it? Or is it for companies to not have to pay out salaries so they increase profits for AI-generated work, regardless if the AI is sentient or not?

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

No, more like both 24/7.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Yeah, I tend to push back a bit, as I wish people would discuss the subject at hand that the comment by me was made about, and not the license that I used in my comment.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

I would argue that its ok to take care of ourselves first and foremost, but ALSO to not stop caring after we’re done with ourselves. IMO, its both.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

I don’t think just thanking someone is real content. /shrug

(Edit: I also declare all that I post/comment is licensed by me as well, in my user account description area.)

But answering someone who thinks they are being funny or annoying, by explaining things to them, would be considered content by me.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

I’m only aware of myself, and the one other person who I learned to do this from, on Lemmy. That was tenish months ago, but still.

I haven’t seen anyone else, even the other person I mentioned previously, since having returned to Lemmy recently.

Be nice if you were right, but I haven’t seen it really.

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

Its not a magic spell, its laying down a marker.

lol! And you’re too late, Google beat you to it. But still, laws will catch up some day, and when it does, I’ll be there. 😈

_{This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}

“True AI” would at least be fitting.