Installing AMD Radeon VII on Linux Mint - Hardware & Software

I'm intermediatly experienced with Linux at this point, but this is my first AMD GPU. Everytime I've tried to install the driver's from the site that AMD provides, it leads to a package dependency clusterfuck of death (I am aware that LM is not officially supported, but I thought it was worth a shot. Bad idea 💀) I hear that Linux Kernel 5.0 and Mesa 19 are due by the end of February. Will this include support for the AMD Radeon VII, or is there a different procedure I must follow for having proper support? I cannot test the procedure right away, due to a manufacturing defect on my card making one of the fans click when spinning. I have to send it back and get a replacement. But when I get it I want to get it up and running ASAP (My old 780 Ti had it's VRAM worn out, so without a display output it's unusable) I super appreciate any help. If coins aren't your thing I can provide some dosh instead. Thank you very much everyone.

You'll probably have better luck trying the Level 1 Tech forums, I think Wendell did a video recently about getting the drivers and firmware for newer AMD GPUs.

If Mint is running kernel 4.20 and Mesa 18.3 or newer it should be working out of the box from what I know. You really shouldn't need to install AMD's driver package unless you need the professional features as the radeon FOSS drivers are actually really good, unlike nouvaeu/nvidia

All I'd say is stuff around phoronix as they do a lot with AMD. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-vii-linux&num=1

Both of these answers together gave me a good idea of what I need to do. But how do I reward both of you? Also here is the video with Wendell in it that Glitchvid was talking about, for future lizard people: https://youtu.be/SsgI1mkx6iw

I meant to find the exact video after I got home from work, but ended up falling asleep and forgot. The one I was thinking about: https://youtu.be/qK5ra2eed7w Since it covered more modern hardware that might not have out-of-box basic support.

You probably want to install Linux Kernel 5.x + Mesa 19.0 rather than the proprietary drivers. Maybe you'd be better served by migrating to l/xubuntu + padoka/oibaf?

Ohhh, thank you! I'm still waiting for my new card to arrive, but I'm sure this is everything I need. If it's not I guess I'll come back with more coin

Shit runs like liquid gold. Thank you all so much for your help! Going from 3GB of VRAM to 16GB is insane BTW. This card will be perfect for video editing too

Great to hear it's working as intended, Linux graphics drivers have come a long way, that's for sure!