Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon? - eviltoast

My GTX-1080 is getting a little long in the tooth, I’m thinking of going all AMD on my Linux Mint gaming rig here, but…is there anything I need to do or install or uninstall to switch to an AMD card from an Nvidia one?

I’ve never done this before on a Linux system; I’ve got my Intel/Radeon laptop, and my Ryzen/GeForce desktop and that’s most of my Linux experience.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Others have said this, but just adding to the pile: I had a system running Pop and a GTX 970. I removed the 970 and installed an RX 6600 XT and had absolutely no issues (and it was the nvidia version of Pop – I simply removed the nvidia shit at a later time).

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      1 year ago

      I’ve never tried this on any distro. I just assumed it would bug out and reinstalled the os.