State of Linux graphics driver

>>62142670
Yes.
Anything GCN is fine, you'll need GCN1.2+ for AMDGPU+radeonsi though.
>GCN1.0/1.1 are usually via radeon+radeonsi, which is fine but doesn't support RADV, so keep that in mind if your buying used gear.

>>62142670
AMD open source drivers are, from what I hear, progressing very quickly now. I've seen some people suggesting they're actually better than the proprietary drivers for some games.

>>62142711
I'm shopping for a used workstation laptop (ThinkPad W-series, Dell Precision, etc.), and the Linux graphics driver problems are making the choices difficult because Nvidia Quadro really dominates this space, and when there are AMD FirePros or Radeons, they're pre-GCN or have some weird quirks that's not supported by amdgpu driver (not a lot of Intel integrated graphics-only models in this range either).

>>62142740
This is true, Vega's driver was better than the proprietary one on launch

>>62142761
pre-GCN is supported and works well, but 3D performance isn't on par with Windows and likely never will be due to lack of interest.

Anything GCN will work fine with great 3D (Windows perf with a few exceptions like Hawaii)
AMDGPU is just the kernel driver
The FOSS usermode driver that actually does the heavy lifting is

radeonsi

, which works with both radeon and AMDGPU kernel drivers.

Catalyst

is a proprietary usermode driver that runs on either FOSS AMDGPU or proprietary FGLRX kernel drivers.

See below for a support matrix

KMS    usermode        Terascale    GCN1.0        GCN1.1        GCN1.2+
radeon  + r600g                                            
radeon     + radeonsi                                
AMDGPU     + radeonsi                        Experimental    

AMDGPU    + Catalyst                                
FGLRX    + Catalyst                                

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>>62143799
Thanks formatting!

>>62142795
Half my shit is broken on vega lol. Can't do transparency with compton, can't use vulkan, can't use opencl. Gamma was fucked had to apply a patch. My favorite shell is broken and artifacted. Wine compatibility is terrible.