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amdgpu is better now. But was terrible for years, probably 2000-2015. That’s what gp is saying.

>>alanfr+(OP)
Huh ? Compared to open source nvidia driver which could do nothing ?

I had a Riva TNT 2 card. The only "accelerated" thing it could do in X was DGA (direct graphics access). Switched to Ati and never looked back. Of course you could use the proprietary driver. If you had enough time to solve instalation problems and didn't mind frequent crashes.

>>alanfr+(OP)
amdgpu is new. you may be thinking about fglrx: a true hell.

>>hulitu+y4
> Compared to open source nvidia driver which could do nothing ?

Compared to the official Nvidia driver.

> If you had enough time to solve instalation problems and didn't mind frequent crashes

I used Nvidia GPUs from ~2001 to ~2018 on various machines with various GPUs and i never had any such issues on Linux. I always used the official driver installer and it worked perfectly fine.

>>hulitu+y4
Did people not try the nvidia driver back then? Even as a casual user at the time it was miles ahead - but it wasn’t open source

>>hulitu+y4
DGA and later XV.

>>foxhil+y5
No, I was thinking about amdgpu. amdgpu, the open source driver, since 4-5 years is better than nvidia closed source driver (excluding the cuda vs opencl/rocm debacle ofc).

fglrx has always been a terrible experience indeed, so AMD was no match for nvidia closed source driver.

So, once upon a time (I'd say 2000-2015) the best Linux driver for discrete GPUs was nVidia closed source one. Nowadays it's the amd open source one. Intel has always been good, but doesn't provide the right amount of power.