So well that my Asus Netbook went from OpenGL 4.1 down to OpenGL 3.3, and when it finally got OpenGL 4.1 back, several years later, it died a couple of months later.

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account42 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yes exactly, they (or someone else) did eventually add OpenGL 4.1 support for your GPU to the open source drivers which never had it before.

That you were "forced" to switch away from the old proprietary driver for some reason does not negatively implicated AMD's contribution to the open source drivers.

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pjmlp 5 days ago | parent [-]

The reason being the old proprietary driver were dropped from Linux distros without feature parity, and given how great Linux drivers work across kernel versions, everyone got a downgraded experience for several years.

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bigyabai 5 days ago | parent [-]

...and you're telling us it's Linux' fault that you didn't want to pin the package?

	▲	michaelmrose 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Over a period of years people get new machines, upgrade existing machines to new distro versions, and update other packages in a way that is oft incompatible with keeping an older package pinned as its requirements may become incompatible with the requirements of newer packages, kernels, and of course distro versions. I think they are blaming the vendor who received their money not the nebulous and non-specific Linux community. Despite being lauded compared to closed source Nvidia AMD has had painful support issues as well.

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