I think he doesn't give enough credit to the Radeon Gallium driver. Yeah, AMD is not putting nearly enough devs on it, but I'm hopeful when Steamboxes start taking off they realize having an open driver the community would port to other OSes if this ever happened again beats the shit out of having a massive black box you can't even fathom FOSSing due to patent and trademark concerns. And then maybe they will staff it up.
Same with Intel. I didn't know their Windows driver was that bad. Isn't Mesa and Gallium meant to be portable? Why not just move development into that and have one working driver for Windows?
I guess they can't do DirectX on Windows without it being proprietary, though. Isn't that funny? But it would make more sense to have a DX proprietary + FOSS GL driver package than having a GL / DX piece of crap that doesn't work and another foss GL one that does but is behind.
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Well, I'm not sure this AMD bashing (I'm pretty sure it is that vendor he refers to by 'B') is helpful.
Yes, 'A' is ahead when it comes to OpenGL, but I don't think this black and white painting is any good.
I can hardly believe this article is right by basically stating:
A: All great.
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A Game Developer's Perspective On Linux Driver Quality
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