[core-questions]

Womp womp. Most of those netbooks are unusably slow anyhow, and were when they were brand new too. Run an older kernel on there and call it a day.

[pjmlp]

Sorry but a DirectX 11 class dual core APU is good enough for general purpose gaming.

And runnig legacy kernels? No thanks.

[monocasa]

Which GPU is it specifically?

[pjmlp]

AMD Fusion Brazos APU, Radeon HD 6250

[monocasa]

Certainly looks supported by /dev/radeon, just not /dev/amdgpu.

[pjmlp]

I didn't said it wasn't supported, I said:

> My Asus Netbook no longer gets all the acceleration options that it used to have pre 16.04.

Which holds true, because /dev/radeon no longer offers hardware video decoding support it once did unless I force enable it, and even then it usually leads to random X crashes when watching videos.

And then there is this,

"For one, AMD users can’t use applications that require OpenGL 4.3 or later without the fglrx/Catalyst drivers."

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/03/ubuntu-drops-amd-catalys...

[monocasa]

OK, that calls out X.org as the reason why the drivers aren't being supported rather than Linux. You can use fglrx with newer kernels just fine, it's just that user space went out of it's way to break support.

I really fail to see how that has anything to do with Linux's unstable kernel driver API.