is the ryzen 3 2200g good for linux

[سكارفيس]

is the ryzen 3 2200g good for linux

[InfinityJosh]

Yes for Windows too

[retro_Ed]

Ryzen APU:s are not yet fully supported in Linux.
Kernel 4.15 is minimum....

[vadim]

Traditionaly AMD has worst linux graphics drivers. Much worse than Nvidia and even worst than Intel. They tried to improve them last year, but I cannot say they had much success.

[x_wing]

Originally posted by vadim:

Traditionaly AMD has worst linux graphics drivers. Much worse than Nvidia and even worst than Intel. They tried to improve them last year, but I cannot say they had much success.

That was long time ago with fglrx. AMD has been giving an excellent support for their GCN arch for the last 3 years at kernel level and Mesa drivers are almost as good as Nvidia. IMO, AMD Linux drivers are far better than Nvidia nowdays.

[vadim]

Have you noticed many developers recommend to use Nvidia for Linux ports? Try to guess why is that.

[Omega]

I am unsure if there are Pro drivers available from AMD for that APUs graphics chip. You will probably have to either manually patch the kernel to 4.15+ or run a rolling release such as Solus, Arch etc..

I ran Solus, Ubuntu (With AMD Pro drivers) and Mint (Manually patched to 4.15) on my Desktop for a few days, I was getting some impressive performance with the open source drivers. From my experience the Pro drivers are a buggy mess, they were running unstable for me.

I have a few friends who are really in to Linux, and they all recommend AMD Vega and RX series over Nvidia GPUs.

Just keep your OS up-to-date and it should only get better over time.

[x_wing]

@vadin that's is more related with the hard that was used in order to test games than which is a better driver.

As Omega mentions, latest hardware works marvelous with Mesa drivers. In fact, Feral interactive started to prefer this lib over amdgpu-pro in order to test their games for Vulkan. Check some benchs and you'll see that AMD drivers are working very well and gives as much permance as Nvida in most of the games.

[vadim]

You totally right about performance. And, say, RX580 in many cases outperforms GTX1060 in Linux now. I told аbout glitches and stability only.

[GreyWolf]

Yes the 2200g and the 2400g both work fine under linux, to reiterate you will need the latest kernel and latest mesa drivers to get the most out of these apus. If you intend to run it as main rig with no discrete graphics both the 2200g and 2400g are capable of 1080 p low vulcan in mad max with a return of 35 fps on the 2200g and 48 fps on the 2400g however they are both much happier at 1600x900 high on the 2200g will get you to around 50 fps and on the 2400g around 60 fps

[MarkJohnson]

I have 18.04 LTS Unbuntu and Steam won't launch. Complains of driver issues I think.

Dp I need 16.04? Seems weird older one work, but newer ones don't. I tried following some guides, and they won't work still.

Maybe I need Arch, but it's command line stuff and a bit of work and a lot of research.

Anyone know of a great guide to get up and going quickly?

[Omega]

Originally posted by -DI- rmjohnson144:

I have 18.04 LTS Unbuntu and Steam won't launch. Complains of driver issues I think.

Dp I need 16.04? Seems weird older one work, but newer ones don't. I tried following some guides, and they won't work still.

Maybe I need Arch, but it's command line stuff and a bit of work and a lot of research.

Anyone know of a great guide to get up and going quickly?

Update your kernel to the latest version and see if that fixes your issue.

You should be running a rolling distribution with this hardware currently.

You don't need Arch. you can also get Manjaro or Solus. Both are rolling distributions. Manjaro is Arch-based.

[MarkJohnson]

Originally posted by Omega:

Update your kernel to the latest version and see if that fixes your issue.

You should be running a rolling distribution with this hardware currently.

You don't need Arch. you can also get Manjaro or Solus. Both are rolling distributions. Manjaro is Arch-based.

Well, I tried Manjaro as I hear about it a lot.

Epic fail. Won't even install at all. The XFCE (17.1.10) version stopped at light display or some such. I forgot to write it down.

So, I tried the gnome version as I heard others had success with gnome. But it seems to stop at launching gnome (GDM).

Created slice user slice of gdm
Starting user manager for uid 120...
Started session c12 of use gdm.
Removed slice user slice of gdm
Started TLP system startup/shutdown.

[mtono]

i wouldnt go for AMD and linux. i had a lot of troubles. nvidia worked by far better, but i dont use linux anymore.
kind regards

[InfinityJosh]

As the Spoopy Kitteh said some time ago Vulkan runs better on Linux so AMD has better compatibility lately.

[TehSpoopyKitteh]

Originally posted by Infinity Josh:

As the Spoopy Kitteh said some time ago Vulkan runs better on Linux so AMD has better compatibility lately.

I think I was referring to video cards there and not AMD's APU's. In some situations it will (when it gets substituted for DirectX it's awesome). It's a good alternative API.

I would however avoid the use of APU's for graphics. All it is, is an iGPU.