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It seems silly to put up SW barriers for people to use your fairly expensive HW, but what do I know.
> Starting with the 2026.1 release Don't upgrade. It's just that simple. Do they offer some unique features in the new version or is it a habit to upgrade everything every day?
I wonder how many Linux GPU sales their decision to penalize Linux on their FPGA line will cost them.
It's long been said: "AMD never misses a chance to miss a chance." In this case, the chance to trash its reputation with customers.
I have specifically chosen AMD _many_ times in the past precisely because of their better linux support and more open toolchain. This is an absolute foot-gun moment. And the gaslighting PR responses are just unacceptable. I'm very disappointed in them.
Nvidia supports their cards for many years - even quite old cards often have modern drivers. AMD just does not see the world this way.
Also remember that one of those 2 companies has opensource drivers for Linux for their old GPUs, while the other doesn't (newer NVIDIA GPUs have an opensource driver but this isn't the case for the 10xx series). Users of legacy NVIDIA cards needs on Linux needs to use their old driver branches, with results that are less than optimal to say the least.
[1]: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-officially-ends-geforce-g...
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/amd-says-that-its-no...
> Starting with the 2026.1 release Don't upgrade. It's just that simple. Do they offer some unique features in the new version or is it a habit to upgrade everything every day?
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This is about their FPGA tooling. It has nothing whatsoever to do with GPUs.
So? I'm making a true observation about the companies. I am well aware this is about FPGA and that has nothing to do with my comment.
A lot of the serious CUDA compute stuff is also not supported on all platforms (it's linux only, because why would you do such stuff on windows).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is about their FPGA tooling. It has nothing whatsoever to do with GPUs.
So? I'm making a true observation about the companies. I am well aware this is about FPGA and that has nothing to do with my comment.
Also this site (itsfoss.com) is unusable and riddled with hundreds of ads and sets my machines fans to full blast.
At least use another credible source or go to the source instead as per the HN guidelines.
Quote: 'The only source I can give at this time is "trust me bro"'