Originally posted by bridgman
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Why ? Cause I want gaming performance on windows when I want to play and a hassle free experience on linux when I do development or surfing. And I hope for at least mediocre 3D support on linux, so that for casual games I don't even need to reboot anymore.
The situation now ? Windows has performance, but it bluescreens now and then (and only beta-drivers for 4 months or more ? seriously, amd ?). And Linux is more-or-less unusable since 2D accel needs 3D accel and that is utterly broken.
I definitely will consider if buying or recommending AMD stuff really is beneficial in the future, even nouveau seems to get new hardware working faster (yes, I know they're not as stable).
You know, I don't need top-notch perdormance on linux from day one. But I cannot tolerate 7 months of utter brokenness. The worst thing is that you AMD employees openly state you don't care and it's not high priority. I once recommended AMD GPUs to all my friends and everyone who asked (at least 4 purchases of mostly high-end cards resulted from that) - but now I don't care any longer.
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