<p>I’ve blogged about getting Manjaro Linux to work with my AMD RX 470 <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2016/11/19/switching-to-manjaro-linux-and-getting-an-amd-rx-470-to-work/">before.</a> The method described in that post got my AMD RX 470 graphics card working with the default 4.4 kernel. This worked fine - with the usual caveats regarding VESA software rendering - until I tried to upgrade to newer versions of the kernel.</p>

<p>I’ve been a Xubuntu user for years after switching from OpenSuse. I liked its simplicity and the fact that it just worked out of the box, but I was getting more and more disappointed with Ubuntu packages being out of date, sorry, stable. Having to rebuild a bunch of packages on every install was getting a little old. Well, they did provide material for all those “build XXX on Ubuntu” posts. Recently I’ve been playing with <a href="https://manjaro.org/">Manjaro…