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Not sure of how well this will work with Linux. I had a AMD4 "5XXXG" CPU and there were contant freezes. The Linux kernel does eventually catch-up but it takes time.

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I still have that cpu, I remember the freezes, it affected Windows too, it was because of the fTPM, you needed to update your firmware or disable fTPM.

Does fTPM not crash anymore? I had the same too, have it disabled since then, can it be enabled now? I also have AMD 5xxx series

https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen7-8700g-linux

Appears to work well, although I've not heard of other people having the issues that you did on the 5000 series.

I'm still on the 3000 series so my experience is older, but always very stable even when new.

I just installed Ubuntu on Ryzen 7950X which uses RDNA2 igpu, since Ubuntu delivers both Chrome and Firefox through snap, both web browsers are completely broken with hardware acceleration enabled. With Debian that delivers Firefox from deb packages, everything works great... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/20045...

I apparently am forgetful, as the couch PC that I've got SteamOS on is a 5600X.

I've not seen any issues on that.

I have a variety of AMD desktops with XXXXG chips and Laptops with AMD integrated graphics. Hardware video decoding doesn't work in most of the cases, neither in Chrome nor in Firefox. My next desktop and laptop will be with the Intel integrated graphics - the only option working OK in Linux + Wayland Plasma + Chrome.

> The Linux kernel does eventually catch-up but it takes time.

Sometimes to a certain degree

as long as you don't run into any bios issues it should work as good as recent AMD laptops (which AFIK work fine if you use a recent stable kernel)

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