This is why I don't buy AMD
I want to buy AMD, but I won't and this is why.
With Intel you got open-source hardware support in the kernel even before the chipset is available in store, so when you go pick it up in the store it is immediatly supported out-of-the-box.
The Nvidia proprietary graphics device driver works great, except for lack of support of kernel mode setting (KMS) and XRandR. It always support the latest hardware, and releases are relatively quick to catch up with X.org ABI changes.
With AMD it never supports the latest graphics cards and it lags behind X.org ABI changes so much that they end up holding back Linux due to distributions not shipping the latest X.org due to AMD not having a device driver out that supports it.
GL1, AMD are you kidding me?!
I want to buy AMD, but I won't and this is why.
With Intel you got open-source hardware support in the kernel even before the chipset is available in store, so when you go pick it up in the store it is immediatly supported out-of-the-box.
The Nvidia proprietary graphics device driver works great, except for lack of support of kernel mode setting (KMS) and XRandR. It always support the latest hardware, and releases are relatively quick to catch up with X.org ABI changes.
With AMD it never supports the latest graphics cards and it lags behind X.org ABI changes so much that they end up holding back Linux due to distributions not shipping the latest X.org due to AMD not having a device driver out that supports it.
GL1, AMD are you kidding me?!
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