Ubuntu Drops Support For AMD's Catalyst GPU Driver (phoronix.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and newer will no longer be supporting AMD's widely-used Catalyst Linux (fglrx) driver. AMD has dropped support for this proprietary AMD driver in favor of encouraging users to use the open-source AMDGPU/Radeon drivers. While the fglrx/Catalyst driver is notorious among Linux gamers, this will represent a regression for many AMD Linux users due to the open-source driver only having OpenGL 4.1 support compared to OpenGL 4.5 in Catalyst, lower performance in common gaming workloads, incomplete OpenCL compute support, no CrossFire multi-GPU support, and other missing features. Much of the missing functionality will end up being implemented by AMD's new AMDGPU driver stack but that is still months away from being truly ready and will only benefit the very latest Radeon GPUs while the fglrx-free Ubuntu 16.04 is set to ship in April.

Comments

Customer support?

[Anne Thwacks]

From the "are-you-nuts?" department

Ubuntu does not exist to support customers. That is what Windows is for!

Re:Customer support?

[D.McG.]

Yes, but I came here for an argument!!
OH! Oh! I'm sorry! This is abuse!
Oh! Oh I see!
Aha! No, you want room 12A, next door.
Oh...Sorry...
Not at all! stupid git.

Re:Customer support?

[the_other_one]

Windows supports customers?

Do you have an example?

It downloads the next version for the customer when they forget to ask for it.