[TylerE]

Yeah, right.

Historically, drivers were often not available at all, at least not ones that actually exposed the real power of the hardware - and performance is usually lower.

See this set of recent benchmarks for instance, which show Linux performance lagging behind W10 by 15-25%.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=radeon-w...

[ahartmetz]

These days, the performance diff is mostly from relatively low effort ports. I'm not really complaining about them - they have to earn money. But in most cases it's not primarily a drivers problem anymore.