Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?

Jesse Palser jessepalsermailinglists at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 12:09:30 UTC 2014


On 11/03/2014 07:07 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 11/03/2014 05:49 AM, Jesse Palser wrote:
>>
>> On 11/03/2014 06:38 AM, Bill Vance wrote:
>>>
>>> Its been a little while, so I'll ask:  Has 14.04
>>> improved to the point where it treats AMD machines
>>> in a civilized manner?  I wouldn't mind upgrading,
>>> but I don't want to keep wasting my time and effort
>>> on crap that won't work at all, let alone work
>>> properly.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My AMD GPU constantly crashes Flash in Google Chrome,
>> so no - nothing has improved....
>>
>> :(
>>
>> Jesse
>>
>
> I find that Flash is poorly supported in Linux in general. Sometime it 
> will work and sometimes it won't. Pot luck. And, in my opinion Google 
> Chrome just plain sucks to start with so................
>
> Ever stop to think that maybe it's the software and not the operating 
> system/CPU that is the issue.
>
Hi,

I never had problems with anything on my other desktop with Intel/NVidia.
I blame AMD for my desktop's problems in Kubuntu...

Jesse




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