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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you need new drivers then Debian is not the easiest distro. I love Debian but I do occasionally consider distro-hopping again to get some complex things working (like ROCm).

I do think Debian is an excellent starting place, though. If it suits you, great! If not, you'll have a better idea of what you need to look for going forward. Hopping distros isn't the end of the world, after all.

[–] TerraRoot 1 points 5 months ago

I think debian and kde is a great first distro, but yeah getting ROCm working on it is the suck,