Each time I try AMD graphics, something is fucked for me. Back with fglrx, fglrx just sucked, so I used Nvidia. Then I had an AMD right around when they finally had opensource drivers, but it was still buggy as hell. So I went with Nvidia again (first a GTX 790, then a GTX 1060). In the meantime I had a new work notebook where I also went with an AMD APU, and had driver crashes for a long time when I was in video calls and it had to decode multiple streams. That thankfully stabilized with Linux 6.4.
Since sooo many people in the community swear by AMD, I thought “dammit, let’s try it again for my new desktop” and got an 7800rx … and I have to reboot ~5 times until I finally make it to a running xserver or wayland session. Apparently I am hit by this problem (at least I hope so). But that doesn’t even read nice … the fix seems to be to revert another fix for powermanagement. So I either have a mostly non-booting card or suboptimal power management.
I start to regret having chosen AMD … again :-/ I seem to be cursed.
“I keep hitting myself in the foot with a hammer! Why does the hammer keep doing this to me!”
If other people apparently have no probiems, it can’t be AMD in general. Never trying AMD because of a bad experience 10 years ago would also be extremely unwise. “We’ve always done it like this around here” is how you fall behind the times.
What distro are you even using?
Arch. On all my machines.
Of course.
Just as a joke try Pop OS and see if your “curse” goes away.