Vulcan is that. It will simplify the driver writing (at least in theory). The spec comes out soon and should change linux gaming as we will start getting parity with windows.
Part of me wonders if this is deliberate. No graphics drivers that are useful, no games. No games, no Linux desktop.
Why? AMD has no stake or interest in what OS you game on, they're just looking to sell their hardware. They get no benefit from enabling or pushing a migration to Linux unless they can steal customers from nVidia/Intel that way, which seems highly unlikely. You don't need a conspiracy to explain why companies don't do things that don't benefit them.
They get no benefit from enabling or pushing a migration to Linux unless they can steal customers from nVidia/Intel that way, which seems highly unlikely.
I get the sentiment of this, but there are several scenarios where pushing people to Linux (and getting existing Linux users) would benefit them. First that comes to my mind is that users that build systems from scratch at home overlap quite a bit with Linux users, and most of those users go for best bang for the buck, which has traditionally been AMD. You can also get more enterprise-level features from AMD in consumer level cpus (ex. ECC memory support; ex. latest features (sata, usb3, etc) come to AMD mo
HOST SYSTEM NOT RESPONDING, PROBABLY DOWN. DO YOU WANT TO WAIT? (Y/N)
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Part of me wonders if this is deliberate. No graphics drivers that are useful, no games. No games, no Linux desktop.
What Linux needs is something like Apple's Metal, an API to help with performance.
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Vulcan is that. It will simplify the driver writing (at least in theory). The spec comes out soon and should change linux gaming as we will start getting parity with windows.
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Yeah why aren't they prioritizing that 1% Linux marketshare?
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Yeah why aren't they prioritizing that 1% Linux marketshare?
You mean 11%, right? Android is Linux, and Nvidia makes Android graphics chips. (And CPUs) ATI does not. Hmmm...
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I didn't realize my smartphone had PCI-E slots.
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Part of me wonders if this is deliberate. No graphics drivers that are useful, no games. No games, no Linux desktop.
Why? AMD has no stake or interest in what OS you game on, they're just looking to sell their hardware. They get no benefit from enabling or pushing a migration to Linux unless they can steal customers from nVidia/Intel that way, which seems highly unlikely. You don't need a conspiracy to explain why companies don't do things that don't benefit them.
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They get no benefit from enabling or pushing a migration to Linux unless they can steal customers from nVidia/Intel that way, which seems highly unlikely.
I get the sentiment of this, but there are several scenarios where pushing people to Linux (and getting existing Linux users) would benefit them. First that comes to my mind is that users that build systems from scratch at home overlap quite a bit with Linux users, and most of those users go for best bang for the buck, which has traditionally been AMD. You can also get more enterprise-level features from AMD in consumer level cpus (ex. ECC memory support; ex. latest features (sata, usb3, etc) come to AMD mo