Originally posted by Linuxxx
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On the AMD side you have 3 drivers, all with pros and cons and 2 of them are OSS but the best one does not come from AMD but is funded by Valve and does not have proper RTX support as the article states.
AMD is like:
- Proper RTX Support? Nope Only with the proprietary driver
- same games do not run with AMDVLK some run well
- most games seem to run well with RADV (which is AFAIK not made by AMD) but for some you better switch to AMDVLK
- Game devs have to decide which driver they should support - hey great test different distros and different drivers per vendor ?
And IMHO delivering an OSS driver is not something about being friendly to OSS or Linux, but a business model.
Without that move they would have had worse chances to be the supplier for things like Stadia, Steam Deck and so on. It is not that they "love Linux" - it is just business.
On the other hand - it seems to get better on all sides, so we should be happy anyways :-)
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