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Just like running a movie
Takes very little system power to do so. Most systems in the last 5 years will stream a game and play it back quite fine. imoOpps missed that.
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Steam streaming with APU
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Just like running a movie
Takes very little system power to do so. Most systems in the last 5 years will stream a game and play it back quite fine. imoOpps missed that.
AM1's AMD's newest platform
I use a wireless controller for my Steam Streaming, although I only use it to get around games not having 21:9 support.
Stupid AMD. Let's go backwards in numbers for newer platforms.
I'm not really sure about ubuntu but I thought it used .deb as its primary package management
I also thought that ubuntu didn't support proper build scripts within .deb
(other than apt-get source --compile)Personally I only ever used ubuntu in 2005 for 2 months before dropping it
(I have been using linux on my main desktop pc's since 1997)I'm not really sure about ubuntu but I thought it used .deb as its primary package management
I also thought that ubuntu didn't support proper build scripts within .deb
Personally I only ever used ubuntu in 2005 for 2 months before dropping it
The AMD driver installation program creates .deb package files to install, but it needs several packages installed already for it to work. It doesn't install those itself, it just fails if they're not there.
Ubuntu and Debian use DKMS now, which automatically builds kernel drivers as and when necessary. So if you get a kernel update, modules from other packages are rebuilt automatically.
With a repository you would just select to install the AMD drivers, and they'd be downloaded, built and updated in future without any issues.
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I can't knock them for it, they're using AM1 as their low power offering.
It looks like ubuntu already provide various packages in their own repo including a pre-compiled one
BinaryDriverHowto/AMD - Community Help Wiki
Hopefully AMD will improve with their new AMDGPU driver
I wouldn't think providing a repo for each distro would be ideal for AMD
It looks like ubuntu already provide various packages in their own repo including a pre-compiled one
BinaryDriverHowto/AMD - Community Help Wiki
Hopefully AMD will improve with their new AMDGPU driver
I wouldn't think providing a repo for each distro would be ideal for AMD
I know this, but the Ubuntu packages are always out of date and never updated to new releases.
Lots of organisations provide Ubuntu repositories with it being the most popular. I'm not sure why you're arguing against something that would be very convenient.
Soz, not arguing
(sorry if I came across as arguing, was just posting an opinion)
It just seems like the people who want to click a button to install drivers already have that option & you didn't mention about outdated drivers before
Soz, not arguing
(sorry if I came across as arguing, was just posting an opinion)
It just seems like the people who want to click a button to install drivers already have that option & you didn't mention about outdated drivers before
As I say, they're not updated. The ones included in Ubuntu are 14.3, while the current release is 14.9. This is also a big problem for newer hardware, which won't be supported by the older drivers.
Take Wine for instance. You can have an old version via Ubuntu, or if you want the latest kept up to date, just add the repository here,
https://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu