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@ryanmhoffman I tried all these three Opensuse leap 42.2, Linux mint 18.1 cinamon and ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS.
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I installed mint 18.1 on my laptop and I experience the weird problem when my laptop wakes up where it's either stuck on the screen saver or just black screen which leads to a power off/on solution.
Not sure what I did to get to this though I just browsed through the screen savers and pick a stick man juggling knives, with some sort of counter which eventually causes him to have thousands of knives :/ -
@nickpapoutsis Krusader is nice, especially if you're used to TotalCommander on Windows.
But file managers are really a problem, mostly because nearly all of them are bundled with a special desktop environment and can't be fully used with other desktop environments -
@nickpapoutsis try pantheon-files, its kind of a cheap knockoff of osx file manager but really nice at the same time ;)
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Have you tried hitting the forums? There are usually drivers or other software that help with power draw and performance issues (so it doesn't explode when you turn it on). As for screens going black, it's weird I must say. I'm using 2 external screens and they work just fine. Better than on a Mac anyway. Maybe you should install proprietary AMD drivers? Forums, dude, forums.
It sucks when it doesn't work out of the box, but these are rare situations, and the community is hard at work to tackle them. -
@mohammed http://phoronix.com/scan.php/...
They're doing benchmarks. I think that qualifies as "supported" -
@mohammed you said AMD APUs are not supported. Not that a specific APU was not supported. You gave a claim, I found it to be false.
Also claims from forums like this
https://reddit.com/r/...
report other APUs to work well with graphics.
I haven't looked beyond the first search result page, but so far I haven't seen people reporting issues with graphics support on AMD APUs.
I'm not saying you didn't have problems or anything, but maybe you took some wrong steps? It happens to everyone. Heck! I crashed my Linux GUI just by installing proprietary drivers for Intel and nVidia on a laptop with a discrete graphics card. It doesn't mean that Linux doesn't work on such machines. -
I had a dream last night that might laptop updated and destroyed my Linux partition, but then I remembered grub recovery on a usb/cd, honestly not sure why I had this dream I don't even use mint that much lol.
I did spend some time troubleshooting my WiFi adapter and GPU issues when I first installed it lol
After using linux as the main os for the last two weeks, here are the biggest drawbacks of linux in my opinion.
1. AMD hybird apus are not supported by linux kernal and it's very lousy.
2. Cannot do any graphics related work without having my screen going black several times.
3. Using dual screen is not reliable, and black screen occurs in one or both screens.
4. The computer goes crazy after waking up from suspend mode and gets overheated!
5. Kernal updates! Is much worse than Windows updates. At least after the painful windows update restart you know everything will be ok, but with linux good luck!!!
6. Realtek Wifi dongles still suffering since 2010.
In my opinion, if you are going to use linux for the first time make sure your hardware is compatible with linux, else be ready for a fight of unstable hardware problems.
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