>Question: what's the difference between "community supported drivers" and exploitation of the valuable time of highly expert computer programmers? Exploitatio

>Question: what's the difference between "community supported drivers" and exploitation of the valuable time of highly expert computer programmers? Exploitation? Far from. Nobody is forcing these people at gunpoint to work on improving support for ancient hardware. They do it because they want to. Hard to fathom, I know. But then you've got people writing open software for e.g. classic Amiga too. This is just another form of the same thing. AMD themselves (and these days, Valve too) do fund drive development and help the community when the documentation is unclear or defective. >AMD should not rely on the community and should compete with Nvidia in duration and quality and feature of its drivers. There's the implication NVIDIA is better somehow. No, it isn't. They quickly abandon support for old hardware, I have experienced it again and again before switching to AMD. Faced with undecipherable XID errors, NVIDIA support told me to "buy a new gpu, as we don't support yours anymore". Note the GPU (MX440), while low end, had been purchased new in recent memory at that point. AMD does something NVIDIA does not, which is to provide proper documentation for their GPUs. Thus the community does not need to reverse-engineer anything, unlike on NVIDIA side.