Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

[David Fletcher]

On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 21:19 -0700, Bill Vance wrote:
> Well, 14.04 seems to like my AMD Sempron 2000+
> even less, as it won't even let it boot, whether
> it's a download upgrade or a install disk.
> 
> I think we need to get everyone together and
> shake our collective fingers at the developers,
> while chanting, "Shame on you!! Shame on you!!",
> over and over again.....:-)
> 
> Bill
> 

If it's of any help, I'm running Mint 64 with Mate, which is based on
14.04, on both my Atom net book and an old AMD X2 machine I built maybe,
I've no idea for sure, 6 or 7 years ago. It's perfect on both machines.

I don't leave them switched on when not in use, but they both always
boot up and shut down properly, unlike Ubuntu 12.04 before I gave up on
it.

My suspicion is that it's more to do with the desktops than the
underlying OS.

Dave

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