AMD proprietary driver experience
A while ago I bought a new 4k display and my old graphics card could not handle it anymore so I bought a new card, AMD RX 460 with DisplayPort and HDMI outputs that would be ok for the new screen resolution. I bought that card that apparently had decent Linux support. I did not notice then that in order to get it working I would need to move from 14.04 to 16.04 Ubuntu LTS, but I did the upgrade and it worked but with a software render mode that was quite slow. Some more googling and I installed the proprietary amdgpu-pro driver, that worked but not ok, among other problems I got: Numbers on Google spreadsheets won't show when using Chrome (but did with Firefox) Openscad would crash when rendering a design Processing programs, any of the examples that uses P3D (OpenGL) would crash. When my kernel was upgraded from 4.4 I got a failed graphics driver, when trying to upgrade it did not work till I install HWE . And even then I needed to set nomodeset in grub I experienced r