I knew it! Could you tell engineers at AMD that we need GDS both on Windows and Linux?
This is such a waste of time and energy...
Not at all...your implementation will work just fine under linux, and im pretty sure the majority of miners (at least people with more than 1 or 2 cards) are on linux anyways.
I mine on Windows 10, 7 rigs. Me and 3 friends over 100 cards. Easier to switch coins, the RX cards don't support undervolting and such under Linux, or BIOS flashing, so Linux is less profitable by ~15%. Driver setup is a lot easier. I dual mining Eth/Dcr right now, ZEC less profit unless you have Nvidia cards. I can get $30/month/card (after power costs), or $20/month/card for ZEC. Zec mining was fun until good Nvidia miners were made, now I only mine with a few 1060s.
So, you think linux folks don't use Windows, just to flash their GPU roms, and then happily run them on linux? That's what I do. I"m quite sure I'm not ~15% less profitable than you. And ZEC is very profitable for AMD Fiji cards; I'm getting $35-$36/month/card, net, with Nanos.
I know Fiji, Hawaii, Tahiti etc are better for ZEC, I am referring to Polaris. I know I could install Windows just to flash, then install Linux, or find out how to flash from Linux, but that's a lot of extra work, and I have never had a good experience with Linux drivers and such. The other point about not being able to undervolt (last I checked), affects profit also, I can easily save 200W+ per rig. I also have a limit to how much I can cool without overloading central A/C in summer, so undervolting is a must. I know I could flash bios with voltage, but that is more work for tweaking, and makes it harder to switch coins (if ZEC profit goes up I may switch), since Eth I run 1100 core, 920mv, and ZEC more like 1260, 1020mv.
For those that like Linux, go ahead, just stating my reasons. On pre-Polaris cards, Windows drivers are fine, so it is a mute point. I use Linux for VMs (web developer.... though getting RSI of some sort
), but have never really liked the desktop versions enough to switch.