Borked my centos install

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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This is more a story of my day.
After getting ads inside my win10 Explorer window I decided to go back to Linux. Installed centos and all went well.. For about half an hour.

First issue. Veman wouldn't run. 4 hours later I finally got it to install but it still wouldn't connect to my esxi server. Gave up on that..

Noticed bad graphics so decided to install fglrx. 7 hours later and it's all now dead haha.
I I stalled the basic Fglrx drives ran aticonfig and nothing. X dies at boot up. Changed xorg.conf back to original startx and it throws a something went wrong Graphic.

I don't think I have had so much drama with a Linux system in a long long time.
Will have a look at it tomorrow but pretty sure I will go back to mint unless there is a better recommendation?

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Why centos? What graphics card do you have ?

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Decided to try something different.
It's a 380x no drama it's a fresh install so I will just whipe it.

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You might be better off running OpenSUSE/Fedora/Ubuntu.

CentOS is practically a server only OS due to it being on Kernel 3.10 and will stay that way for the next 5+ years (It is pretty much like RHEL where it prides to be a rock solid OS, to be that way they sacrifice kernel upgrades unless necessary)

The recommendation is purely from a look at desktop hardware. In no ways I am telling you to switch as a mandatory thing but as a suggestion based on hardware support from newer kernels.

EDIT: Poked around, you can upgrade the CentOS kernel which should help with hardware issues. ElRepo has a repo that should help with that.

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Yeah I installed with Elrepo.
Was way more of a headache than I liked. Figured I will try something different with it definitely was.

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For desktop use manjaro with XFCE runs on anything that I throw it at.
But if you are looking for adventure this might be to easy. xD

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in short, 380x is too new to run well on CentOS.

Stick with Fedora, OpenSUSE, or Ubuntu Mate.

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Hope all is well on Fedora 25 for you. It should be.

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I wouldn't say that. AMDGPU-PRO is officially supported on CentOS unlike OpenSUSE and Fedora. I'd argue it's probably better than all the platforms you listed except Ubuntu and given that they're both officially supported I'd say they're equal. As far as my suggestion. Use AMDGPU-PRO not fglrx. fglrx is a pile of crap and a 380X as well as CentOS are both supported by AMDGPU-PRO anyway.

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yeah there was a official download but i had pisspoor performance so wanted to fiddle.

all good now back on mint for the next year or so ..or untill a new witcher comes out

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Alright haha. Mint is a fantastic distro. I eventually dropped it because I didn't like all the pre-installed stuff it comes with but it's probably one of my favorites.

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