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No dates were specified, No commitments made.
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Day 1 game support was not promised, just individual game support.
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They still plan on splitting the development for RDNA1 and RDNA2 from RDNA3 and RDNA4 development, giving only the latter support for new features.
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All previous points remain true, drivers will remain split with the former receiving no further feature updates.
Tldr the GPUs are still supported and will work for new games, new features get released on new compatible hardware, and when they stop support on windows you can always move to Linux and continue to get support for your AMD cards for likely years to come
You know this is not applicable for the vast majority of people lets be honest. Most GPU buyers either have some multiplayer games with “incompatible” anti cheat that they want to play, or simply don’t want the extra hassle (that linux enthusiasts would like you to believe does not exist), of switching to a new OS both from the inertia of already knowing a prior OS and from the reality that there are simply more hitches in a linux experience for a normal person due to less development support both from app makers and distro maintainers (purely due to less money and people).
Buy a new GPU then
Over 90% of games run on Linux without “extra hassle”
You know exactly what nuance that “90%” means. I’m sure you’re willing to dismiss many popular multiplayer games as all “not being worth it” but not most people. Thats of course on top of the other reasons people have.
Has nothing to do with my GPU. That’s irrelevant to the points made.
We’re talking about getting extended support after your GPU has been dropped on windows because it’s obsolete. Of course it’s relevant. You’re just constructing a strawman
Its not relevant at all, because people won’t do this. You are just restating the initial point.
This still is ultimately a huge problem to the vast majority of GPU buyers.
Those this advice could possibly be relevant to are already on linux, because no one is switching operating systems purely because one piece of hardware is no longer updated.
The options are:
Your comment isn’t going to change that