To be fair, pre-amdgpu, nvidia's proprietary linux drivers were sadly an exceptional "supported" situation. Back then it was basically just Intel's integrated

To be fair, pre-amdgpu, nvidia's proprietary linux drivers were sadly an exceptional "supported" situation. Back then it was basically just Intel's integrated graphics that had first-class mainline support. The AMD linux support is a relatively recent shift historically speaking. Intel really should get a lot more recognition for its mainline Linux graphics support though. Without their contributions over past decades we might not even have a modern graphics stack at all in-kernel.