13th October 2016, 18:29
Hey, just want to comment on this, Ive read and watched several reviews of maui and the only negative thing i hear about it is for driver support. Yes there is no driver manager in maui, they explain why in the release notes. And the catalyst driver is not supported by any ubuntu 16.04 based distro. This apparently is an issue for some people and ive read some suggestions that basically say you shouldnt use maui if you have an amd/ati card. Im worried this may discourage people from using this wonderful distro so I wanted to share my experience so far. Before Maui I used netrunner 14 and i used the flgrx proprietary driver and it was all smooth sailing. So when i installed Maui I was worried about switching to the open source driver. Ive installed Maui on 2 desktops both with older amd cards, not too old, one was from the r5 series and one was from the r7 series. Its been a few months now and I gotta say I am very satisfied with how my machine is performing using the open source radeon driver. I use my 40inch 1080p tv for a monitor and the picture looks amazing, its crisp, theres no video tearing, no resolution issues, no glitches, I think the display actually looks cleaner now than it did using the catalyst driver. So I just wanna say this, IF you have an amd card , Don't believe what you hear . Test it out for yourself. Give the new open source driver a chance and you might be surprised with the results. I know I was.