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What do these acronyms mean?
AMD Advanced Micro Devices
VLK Vulkan
RADV Radeon Vulkan
RADV is the open source community driver everyone uses. AMDVLK was the official AMD open source driver rarely anyone used
Depends, if you installed both AMDVLK and RADV, AMDVLK would be the default unless you changed your default Vulkan icd loader. Maybe distros where you don't have to do a lot of DIY and more focused in gaming then RADV was the default. But other distros went with upstream defaults.