It Can Be Worthwhile Upgrading Your Open-Source Radeon Driver On Ubuntu 15.10

[phoronix]

Phoronix: It Can Be Worthwhile Upgrading Your Open-Source Radeon Driver On Ubuntu 15.10

Whew, tons of Linux graphics benchmarks this weekend, in large part for getting more eyes looking at the new OpenBenchmarking.org web interface that's now in beta so feedback can be received and get it all tuned up for the official release in February. The latest of these benchmarks this weekend is comparing the out-of-the-box Ubuntu 15.10 performance against the speed when upgrading the Linux kernel and Mesa for the AMD R600g and RadeonSI Gallium3D drivers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-15.10-Radeon-Up-Worth-It

[rabcor]

Oh my that is quite the improvement.

[tigerroast]

Here's an easy way to upgrade to the newest AMD drivers:

Step 1) Nuke your current Linux install.
Step 2) Install Arch or rolling-release distro of choice.
Step 3) Update.

[Hibbelharry]

I don't see how arch would improve my life as user here. Adding a ppa and doing a dist-upgrade is a breeze and takes just some seconds when you know the mechanisms.

[blackshard]

Here's an easy way to upgrade to the newest AMD drivers:

Step 1) Nuke your current Linux install.
Step 2) Install Arch or rolling-release distro of choice.
Step 3) Update.

I don't have anything against Arch, but this is not a fast at all...

[danwood76]

I don't have anything against Arch, but this is not a fast at all...

As long as you have a separate home partition it will be very easy and quick.

Once switched you don't have to worry about Ubuntus outdated and buggy software packages.
You will have a lot less software related issues since switching away from the bugfest that is Ubuntu, and you will always be at the latest stable release.

[tigerroast]

I don't have anything against Arch, but this is not a fast at all...

I said Arch "or rolling-release distro of choice." Is installing Arch a long task for those not comfortable with configuring their OS from the bottom-up? Sure.

But installing Netrunner Rolling, KaOS, Manjaro, and enabling Unstable in Debian are all pretty fast tasks. The bottleneck's your