@djsumdog @ryo AMD's drivers are better, but that's not really my point, the point is what I heard about the firmware requirements. As far as Nouveau goes, I haven't had a GPU in years other than on my 2008 ThinkPad. I think it worked pretty well with the last Nvidia GPU I had. And I say think because the system itself was an absolute disaster, but that's because the motherboard itself was defective. Everything I installed on it broke for no reason, it was ridiculous. My favorite computer ever was full AMD, though. Had a Phenom II X6 and 8 GB of RAM. It was the first computer that I ever owned that made me feel "okay, this is so fast that I will never have to upgrade, and it has practically infinite RAM". And I think it may have been one of the last CPUs that AMD made that didn't have the PSP (I think that started around 2012, while Intel started in 2008, and I a lot of Core 2 Duos already had it, but could be disabled on Librebootable machines).

I still ran Windows at the time, but the computer was so good that it ran a single Windows 7 install from beginning to end, and it never got slow (which is a big deal, because it's fucking Windows). Unfortunately, it got completely destroyed during a storm, in 2017. I also lost over 3 TB of files because my storage drive was damaged, and it was encrypted, and I couldn't decrypt it to recover anything, and at the time, I had never had a drive failure in my entire life (because I kept getting bigger ones every few years), so I didn't have backups. I was a fucking retard for that, of course, and I went from that to being paranoid about bit rot and about cosmic rays potentially damaging my files, and wanting to build a Faraday cage to try to protect a tape archive from the next Carrington event.

Anyway, what a great computer. I have no negative memories of it, other than losing it. And then the computer that I got after it was an absolute nightmare. I took way too long to realize and accept that the motherboard itself was fucked up. Also, I think it may have been damaging things that were connected to it as well, because holy shit, the amount of stuff that while I used that thing was unbelievable. I felt like I had a status ailment that reduced my luck stat to a negative value. Multiple drive failures during just a couple of years, and two dead GPUs, and everything that I installed on it would implode sooner or later (Windows was more stable, some distributions didn't fully work at all, they couldn't even run X, and Arch worked for a few days and then just broke completely even though I didn't change a single thing and didn't even update). Ridiculous. And then since then, I have been using nothing but integrated graphics. And then two of my three monitors died too, and my entire life was fucked up by the world government, and I didn't even get a lot of my escapism in return because my systems can't run it. Luck: -99.