So after trying out Mint on my old laptop for a few months I wanted to go straight to Linux on my new build what with it being surprisingly user friendly once past the initial jank.

—The build—
MOBO: Gigabyte b850 aorus elite wifi7
CPU: AMD 9950X3D
GPU: Powercolour 9070xt
RAM Corsair vengance 64GB 5200MHz DDR5
Storage: WD Black SN850X 2TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 Gen4 x4 NVMe SSD

So naturally everything is now on fire.

I started with Mint Cinnamon edition which did install after some initial teething (Boot USB on safemode) but just refused to work with the wifi adapter on that motherboard, it also couldn’t see the GPU but I never got to trying to resolve that since the Mint setup is pretty wifi dependant and I wasn’t sure it wouldn’t fix itself once it could finish sorting itself out.

I then had a friend who’s been using Linux for 10 years (Some distro called tumbleweed?) reccomend I try Ubuntu as it generaly supports more hardware. It did work with wifi right out of the box but had this weird issue where it could recognize my GPU and load the right driver but then just give up and use the IGPU on my CPU anyway. Also janky with software with steam (Which I never had issues with on Mint on my laptop) just refusing to work properly and at one point getting into a cage match with snap, even when installed from steams own website rather than the application manager (with an uninstall of the old one in between of course)

We spent a good couple of hours getting slapped with weird behaviours and bugs my friend had never seen before until calling it a day.

So once again I’m here politely asking what the fuck linux!? Seriously though what do I do here, I can just about manage running windows software on afformentioned laptop mint install but linux as a whole just seems to hate this hardware setup.

Alright I’m just going with a stripped down version of windows 10, I’ve spent 2 days trying things from here and from that friend and from random forum posts of people with the same issue and at this point it seems no one has a consistent fix and I don’t feel like building an entire operating system from scratch (nor would I know how)

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You hardware is very new and Linux Mint I believe has kernel 6.8. You switch to more up to date distro. Ubuntu 25.04 or Fedora 42 would be good choices. I also have a similar setup but one generation older. I have disabled the integrated GPU completely (from the BIOS) just to avoid my nightmares from using laptops with hybrid-graphics.

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Ubuntu 25.04 plucky currently has kernel 6.14, 24.04 noble only 6.11.

        Debian 12 bookworm has 6.1 and the recently “frozen” 13 trixie has 6.12.

        For Debian bookworm, the non-free AMD graphics drivers firmware-amd-graphics date from 20230210 (backported: 20241210) and for trixie 20250410.

        I don’t know how up to date the amd firmware versions in the Ubuntu release are.

  • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m running Nobara 42 (Fedora-based, created by Glorious Eggroll, the Dev who makes GE-Proton, responsible for the best gaming experiences on Linux presently) right now to get my 9070 working with Steam.

    Having the 6.13 kernel wasn’t enough, as my former distro (MX) wasn’t planning on adopting Mesa 25.x for several months or longer. Every week or so, Nobara grabs newer Mesa builds and kernel updates and things work better. At first, HGL was black screen and audio only, but that only lasted a week.

    Try it out and see what you think. What have you got to lose?

  • mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    according to https://linux-hardware.org/ your MB is supported on mint 22.1 too, the problem may be that default kernel is 6.8, though 6.11 is available if you can get far enough to change it. also you can get even newer kernels manually. another version of this MB has been probed only in fedora so far. fedora is faster with the updates, you could have better luck with that. ubuntu always has been a nightmare for me with every machine I’ve tried it on, would not recommend.

    if you’re getting igpu instead of the real one, which one did you plug your monitor into? do not use the motherboard hdmi or dp, use the gpu ones. also, disable the igpu from bios.

    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Weirdly its plugged directly into the GPU in both cases but neither system info, nor blender can actually detect it. (despite the PC clearly posting) and the Terminal detects a power colour GPU but can’t connect to it.

  • wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Bizarre, I wouldn’t expect issues with Linux on that hardware config. Perhaps try something with newer packages, I have a pretty similar setup like yours except for the CPU (7800X3D) with no issues on EndeavourOS. Fwiw, I have the Powercolor Reaper 9070XT which runs hot and loud out of the box but is pretty good now with a slight undervolt and tweaked fan curve

  • giacomo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    try bazzite

    edit, also make sure you connecting your monitor to the GPU and not the mono.

    • bort@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Complete aside here but I find it interesting that PowerColor is a new name to you. The first PC I built 20 years ago had a PowerColor GPU 🙈