• technologicalcaveman@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s only been a few weeks, but yeah I noticed that I don’t have to fight my windows as often. Games don’t have issues with odd window layouts either.

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      1 year ago

      Nvidia used to be the gold standard for Linux graphics, they’ve slowly slid and Intel had good drivers even if the hw was weak, but amd is really making a solid showing right now, especially considering their legacy of decent hardware with garbage software.

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          No, so ATI had a pretty bad software group that was just limping along, somewhere around the 2xx series they admitted it and made a huge push to get a decent software team in. They were hiring hard and got some decent engineers, coupled with their really weak ones after, they started making good headroom, and over time (partly because they were forced to by the islands series) they slowly and painfully made better drivers.

          They hired a new Sr. Director, before that they were given so much leeway, they had garbage like fglrx which crashed a lot and was closed source, but once they open sourced it got better fast, because they couldn’t live with spaghetti code.

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        1 year ago

        For me, I don’t care if the software is rough as long as the drivers work. The amd apps were annoying when I was doing things in Windows, but after I got my updates I closed it all out. I don’t plan on interacting with them much.