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Are AMD processors less well supported than Intel processors?

rated 0 times [ 10] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 9865 / 3 Years ago, thu, may 13, 2021, 11:05:44

I am looking to buy a new laptop, and as the Toshiba C660s seem to have small speakers, off-center keyboards and touchpads, and terrible "two-touch to zoom" feature, i am browsing Lenovo Ideapads.

Becuase of my budget, all the models that jump out at me are AMD, and previously i had only heard bad things, except about price, which was usually used in the context of "you get what you pay for".

Under Lenovo on Ubuntu Friendly, less than 1/10 seem to be AMD (clearly less popular, apparently the average Ubuntu user has more cash than i do), but they seem to be evenly spread by the ratings, neither typically low or high ranking.

Under Ideapad on Ubuntu Friendly, only seven have been tested, with 1 AMD coming in at 1 Star.

I hardly think this a fair representation of the processor, so i will ask here.

Am i more likely to experince problems with an AMD powered laptop running Ubuntu than an Intel powered one, or are my chances about the same? Are AMD processors less well supported than Intel processors?

Specifics

Lenovo G575: £349.97

AMD Dual-Core Processor E-350 @ 1.60GHz with a 1MB Cache

AMD Radeon™ HD 6370M 1GB graphics

4GB RAM

15.6" screen @ 1366x768 (16:9, widescreen)

750GB HD

DVD±RW

2-in-1 card reader (MMC,SD)

4x2.0 USB ports

802.11BGN WiFi

AMD Catalyst™ Proprietary Display Driver for Linux x86 and Linux x86_64

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answered 3 Years ago taigysel · Accepted Answer

Short answer: no, makes no difference what so ever what CPU is installed on your laptop.

Makes a huge difference what graphics chip is installed tough, specifically what chipset it will be using.

In terms of CPU type, RAM, hard disk, those wont be the issue. The issues will come from graphics, special media keys, integrated webcams and sound devices.

An AMD laptop will have a built in ATI graphics card, you need to make sure that the card is well supported by the driver for Linux.

An Intel laptop will have either an Intel (which is supported by the included driver on Ubuntu) or an nVidia card, which, on the last case needs to be check also for support from drivers.

The most probable reason you are seeing many Intel bases laptops supported by Ubuntu (or Ubuntu friendly) is probably that there are not drivers required to install out of the box for a system with an Intel graphics chipset and the driver works (mostly all cases) very well with Intel working hard on supporting Linux.

Look for a laptop model that has a good and supported graphics chipset, no or limited special media keys (or at least look for support for those before you buy it) and if having a web cam make sure that there is a driver and that you don't really need to install to many things for it to work.

But CPU wise, you have the same chances (almost 0) of having problems because of what CPU is in the laptop.