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Valve launches SteamOSValve launches SteamOSPosted Sep 24, 2013 17:32 UTC (Tue) by speedster1 (subscriber, #8143)In reply to: Valve launches SteamOS by Otus Parent article: Valve launches SteamOS
I have a policy of buying new computers from ZaReason, which avoids such hassles with poorly supported graphic cards. Buying from Think Penguin or System76 also would work for this purpose. Even if you buy just the base system from them, you can note what graphics cards were available as addons and pick up one of those later, knowing that decent Linux drivers exist.
I've helped other people who come to LUG Q&A sessions fight through graphics problems, so I know they still exist on random hardware that came with windows pre-installed, but my own gaming rig bought with the above strategy has worked great despite having a (discrete) radeon.
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Valve launches SteamOS Posted Sep 25, 2013 11:25 UTC (Wed) by AndreiG (guest, #90359) [Link]
OK, I'm hijacking the thread :
There is no excuse for AMD's binary blob to work with their discrete GPUs - I borrowed a HD7750 and it works ok - but not with their integrated GPU in the A10. Technically it's a 6xxx series GPU slapped on the same die as the CPU cores. It is not an entirely different architecture from outer space.
They can make drivers for Mac OS X that work flawlessly with 6xxx-series cards in iMacs but not for Linux ?
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