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AMD GPU drivers
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2015–2026), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Drivers much harder to get working on Linux or BSD than Nvidia'sUnreviewed
20152026- AMD GPUs practically unusable for serious ML work despite driver expectations2024-03-24
- AMD drivers are much harder to get working on Linux or BSD than Nvidia's2020-02-02
- Installing modern AMD drivers on Ubuntu is a huge pain requiring third-party repos2019-10-02
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Mouse cursor takes half a second to respond when polling rate is over 500Hz2026-06-20
- Non-dismissable fake chat takes 25% of screen, pushing user to click it2026-02-24
- Many code names mean the same thing, and GCN covers very different designs2025-06-21
- AMD GPUs practically unusable for serious ML work despite driver expectations2024-03-24
- Driver silently crashes the system with no warning that the card is unsupported2023-12-25
- OpenCL compute projects crash, leak, and behave unpredictably; debuggers work only intermittently2023-02-20
- Two separate AMD drivers are confusing, and the Pro driver lags behind on Fedora2022-12-17
- AMD drivers are much harder to get working on Linux or BSD than Nvidia's2020-02-02
- Installing modern AMD drivers on Ubuntu is a huge pain requiring third-party repos2019-10-02
- Automatic brightness changes were unpleasant and could not be turned off2016-07-31
- Setting up AMD drivers on Linux VMs has caused persistent problems and fiddling2015-07-26