This is disguisting. Remember guys, no brand is worth fanboying over.

https://youtu.be/KsjjFr9mB7w thanks to hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works for letting me know the link doesn’t work

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      4 months ago

      I’ll continue to buy AMD because of their excellent open source drivers on Linux.

      But also, talking down to Windows users is not a good way to invite them to join us.

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        4 months ago

        But since AMD stopped optimizing their drivers for specific games, does that not apply to linux too?

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          I don’t know, but I do know that many games perform even better on Linux these days.

          As a software engineer, I will tell you that to put game-specific optimizations in drivers seems like a horrifying practice that should never have become commonplace, and probably leads to piles of hacks and unmanageable complexity. I have doubts as to whether Mesa and/or the Linux kernel would accept such a thing in open-source drivers.

          In the long run, we’re probably better off with clean, maintainable code. I’d rather have that than a few extra FPS any day.

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            Yea that’s true, it’s probably a mess to optimize for individual games. Depends how much of an impact it makes to have those optimiziations I guess.

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      4 months ago

      Flexing the fact that you use Linux, while recommending the most dumbed down and locked-down Linux distro, is quite ironic.

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        it’s not locked down it uses virtualization and containers. it’s just a different way of thinking about things. you can literally install arch in one click and use everything that exists there, same with Debian