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> 2003 You had a problem with ATI's closed-source driver 14 years ago. AMD's open-source driver now is a COMPLETELY different story.

• distances 9y ago
  > You had a problem with ATI's closed-source driver 14 years ago. AMD's open-source driver now is a COMPLETELY different story. Indeed. In 2003 no-one would have based their expectations on what happened in 1989. 14 years is an eternity in this field.
• Asooka 9y ago
  Yes, and it was bad enough that I decided to never ever buy from that company again. For the record, I did have the displeasure of using an AMD GPU in 2010, because that's what my employer at the time purchased, and it was only slightly more stable. I am absolutely convinced that nobody except nVidia can produce stable, working video drivers. The last 14 years haven't produced a counter-example.
  • jhasse 9y ago
    You're personifying companies way too much.
  • baldfat 9y ago
    Also do you also refuse to use RPM based distros due to dependency hell? Also GOOD NEWS ATI is dead, it wasn't AMD that manufactured the Card or the Drivers! It was a company called ATI based in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies AMD bought them 2006 and killed ATI brand 3 years later. Also I bet you only a handful of people actually still work on the technology.
  • Zardoz84 9y ago
    I had a bad experience with an ATI card many years ago with a Ubuntu box. And line you, I said that I would never buy an ATI GPU. Actually my computer have a RX580 and work like a dream (On windows and Linux)