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.