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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

On a side-note, old GPU box artwork was a wild genre

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Totally, and this one isn’t even from the truly unhinged era of the ‘90s and early 2000s.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This might have been the end of it actually. I don’t remember seeing that stuff when the R9 series started.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ngl, I miss it

[–] grue@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This title is not accurate. The GPUs worked on Linux already, but only with AMD's old proprietary RADEON driver. The news is that they are now supported by the Free Software AMDGPU driver.

[–] mrbigmouth502@piefed.zip 6 points 1 month ago

The radeon driver wasn't proprietary, just old and superseded by AMDGPU. AMD's old proprietary driver was fglrx.

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yea the 2010s were certainly a time for GPU boxes...