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.

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    1 year ago

    Just uninstall all the Nvidia stuff and reboot. It’s been great for me so far.

    Linux will auto detect the hardware and load the proper modules at boot. I believe initrd does this.

    This worked great for Intel -> AMD CPU also. I just removed the Intel microcode packages after I rebooted to save the disk space.