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Crinus on July 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The death watch for the X Window System has probab...

I think he refers to the fact that Nvidia's drivers provided excellent OpenGL support for multiple years compared to the absolute dumpsterfire that fglrx was. Before Valve decided to pay attention to Linux and thus prod AMD to improve their drivers, if you wanted anything approaching serious 3D performance on Linux, you had to use Nvidia. Anything else would be a waste of money.

arghwhat on July 8, 2019 [–]

Fair enough: That was indeed true many years ago.

Crinus on July 8, 2019 | [–]

Not that many, fglrx's replacement amdgpu was released in april 2015, that is just four years ago. And it wasn't until later that it got usable.

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