Re: Waylaid
I use the open source driver in Ubuntu with my AMD APU
If you do that with Nvidia on a laptop you will fry it. Been there, tried that as recently as mid-2017. The thermal control in the Nvidia open source drivers does not work properly till this day. Last time I tried It survived trhough installing OS on it only to die reproducibly later on while moving data to the laptop.
This is the main reason I stick solely to AMD by the way - I also prefer the open source driver as well. While it's power control is incomplete on some of the most recent chipsets it is good enough for the system not to overheat. It has reached the point where you need to fight with Catalyst only if you want OpenCL.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
