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Do I actually need to do anything to go from GeForce to Radeon? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It is entirely plug and play.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Like there's an Nvidia control panel that ended up on my machine by itself, that's not going to be a problem?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Not an issue. I did the same thing a while ago, switched from nvidea to amd. After i confirmed the radeon was working fine i purged all the nvidea stuff

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Everyone that - depending on how the Nvidia stuff was installed - they may need to uninstall that first as it may have changed some libraries.