[20:49] <John__> Hello, I bought a new laptop with amd gpu and i'm confused about the current state of amd drivers. Can someone explain what are all these drivers, fglrx, ati, amdgpu, amdgpu-pro? I want the best recommended driver for performance
[20:52] <lynorian> John__, which laptop gpu is it
[20:52] <lynorian> fglrx is the old propritary driver not supported anymore
[20:53] <lynorian> ati is a company that amd bought with that gave them their gpu technology
[20:53] <lynorian> amdgpu is the new driver for recent stuff
[20:54] <lynorian> amdgpu-pro is the proprietary amd extensions to the new amdgpu driver
[20:54] <John__> Dell Inspiron 15 5559 with AMD Radeon R5 M335
[20:55] <John__> lynorian, thank you very much
[20:56] <John__> lynorian, oibaf ppa has a driver called xserver-xorg-video-ati, what about that
[20:56] <lynorian> I honestly don't use obiaf
[20:57] <lynorian> Ok you should use amdgpu on that
[20:57] <lynorian> and then with amdgpu-pro if you need even more performance
[20:59] <John__> is there any ppa with pro driver?
[21:01] <lynorian> oh wait that is actually A rebadged old cpu
[21:01] <lynorian> hate when amd does that
[21:01] <lynorian> hoenstly just use raedon
[21:01] <lynorian> I have heard fglrx is very unstable
[21:02] <lynorian> and not supported with 16.04 or newer
[21:05] <John__> what driver is installed by default in ubuntu 16.10?
[21:37] <lynorian> it installs the open source ones by default but will load the one you need
[21:37] <lynorian> this allows you to say using the built in drivers to move disks around to different machines if say your laptop screen breaks and you need data off it
[23:49] <John__> my laptop has hybrid graphics, amd/intel and now uses intel, how to change it into amd