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Anthony Bullard

I have a similar setup, but what OS are you running? I can't use dual monitors with Ubuntu yet because there isn't kernel support for the Vega M yet(well it's in 4.18, but that's not LTS yet).

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Kennedy Baird

Yeah it was a great few days realising I'd bought a PC that Linux didn't support yet. I got a pre release NUC through a friend who won at tournament.

I moved from Linux Mint to kubuntu with 4.18 kernel, and updated Mesa drivers. I update the kernel as needed, I haven't had any issues at all using latest kernel, even when I was using the nightly builds pre release it was working fine but now I just stay on the point releases and will go to 4.19 when it's out of RC. I was manually updating but then installed ukuu to save some time.

The message drivers are: launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubun...

Here's my thread from askubuntu if you want more information, little bit dated now but useful background: askubuntu.com/questions/1040440/gr...

Depending what kind of desktop environment you like (I really dislike unity and prefer the more "standard" customizable task bar at bottom) KDE Plasma is great and quite customizable :)

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Anthony Bullard

I tried upgrading my kernel to 4.18 once it went mainline on my 18.04 install....that didn't go well. And I have Gnome dialed in just right, so I doubt I'd move to Plasma
But thanks for the links! Things will be great when 18.10 is out(hopefully it lands with 4.18 at least out of the box)

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Kennedy Baird

Did you try using the updated drivers alongside the kernel update? I think that's still necessary alongside updating the kernel.