Hi all.

On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 12:47 PM William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

On 5/8/22 09:01, Tom Low-Shang via talk wrote:

> [ 13.537] Current Operating System: Linux mx1 5.10.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5
> .10.106-1 (2022-03-17) x86_64
>
> The kernel is too old. RX 6000 generation needs 5.12 or newer

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Anyways, this is too much work for a user. If you want the latest
distro, just wait for Fedora-36 or try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Or, bite
the bullet and try Kubuntu-22.04 (hopefully 22.04.1 will fix some of the

issues).

Bullet bitten.

I tried MX, which uses a kernel rev too old for my video card. (Thanks for the catch, Tom!)
I tried Fedora testing, which was OK with the video but froze upon determining that it lacked the firmware for my Realtek r8169 LAN controller (which it saw and used fine during install, but froze upon boot from HD -- what's up with that?)
I tried the unofficial 'firmware' Debian installation -- no change, still borked on the LAN lack of firmware (isn't this pretty common hardware?)
I then tried Kubuntu -- full success! Dual-boot, dual-screen, all HW recognized (tho the video can use some tuning, its defaults are good).

So I'm happy with the Kubuntu install so this war story has a happy ending. The only installed snaps are "CORE20" which is an IoT package and Firefox which is strangely dependent on CORE20. There are ways to replace this, but at least for now Snapzilla is functional.

As for William's "too much work for a user" comment, couldn't agree more.