Long time ago, after lot of headaches, I discovered the PSU was the culprit. Changing it for another with more power/better quality solved it in a instant. I mentioned it because is something you might not think about initially. Good luck!.
Do you have a powerful/decent/not-too-old enough PSU?.
Thunar and: sudo apt install gvfs gvfs-mtp
Good F#$%^ riddance.
Bash. It has enabled me to automatize a lot of sh*t I wouldn’t do just because it would take me a lot of time/efford to do. There’s a LOT you can do with a few simple scripts, a few examples:
…you name it…
…in most cases just by typing one word in the terminal. It was kind of a mindblow coming from the crappy window$ crappysystem eons ago.
Practice.
I’ve been using openbox only for the last 20 years or so and I loved it. For the last 3-4 months I moved to labwc…and again, I’m loving it. I’ve never felt the need for a full desktop.
Nothing beats playing just what you want, when you want, whether or not there’s internet available and at the highest quality you can afford. Quodlibet/Rythmbox, ID3 and puddletag FTW !!.
I had that warning too with a r9 270x and if I remember correctly it was because radv didn’t have official/full support for GCN =<2, so what they’re saying is something in the line of… it may break. In my case, it worked beautifully gaming with proton, etc.
You’re right, I don’t have mint/ubuntu installed nor that kind of hardware (anymore), so I can’t give precise instructions. I was just like: see that you’re not missing any of these packages/repos/firmware and adapt it to your needs. I had to deal with a laptop with dual gpu (intel+amd) and it was such a pain in the ass to get it working. I think you needed to have n packages installed, add grub flags, configure X11 to use amdgpu and blacklist radeon and even when I had it working, the amd gpu was only compatible with a limited amount of vulkan instructions so I had graphical glitches and games breaking. Old dual gpu setups are just a nightmare.
You need to activate contrib, non-free, non-free-firmware repos:
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
You should have something like deb http://URL_OF_THE_REPO DISTRIBUTION main, you need to add contrib non-free non-free-firmware to the end of those lines like:
deb http://URL_OF_THE_REPO DISTRIBUTION main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
then you do sudo apt update and try installing the packages again.
This is the setup I use in debian, it might give you a hint (no PPAs, standard repos):
sudo apt install mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 libvulkan1 libvulkan1:i386 vulkan-tools vkd3d-demos mesa-opencl-icd clinfo libxrandr2 libxrandr2:i386 libvulkan-dev libvulkan-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 vkmark glmark2-x11 firmware-amd-graphics radeontop xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
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