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by vedranm 3408 days ago
I'm not sure how much you are following, but AMD is doing quite well on Linux/*BSDs (at least regarding graphics, but they haven't had any interesting CPUs for a while). Mesa 17 has just hit OpenGL 4.5 compatibility on last 4 generations of Radeons [1].

Radv, community-developed Vulkan driver supporting last 3 generations of Radeons, supports vkQuake, Dota 2, and The Talos Principle, which is pretty much everything there is on Linux [2]. Playing Doom 2016 over Wine using Vulkan is also working if one uses airlied's branch [3]. Performance is not on par with Windows right now, but I expect it to improve over time.

[1] https://www.mesa3d.org/relnotes/17.0.0.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_Vulkan_supp... [3] https://github.com/airlied/mesa/tree/radv-wip-doom-wine