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The sad truth is that it takes a while for the open source drivers to solidify after any new release and going open source means not getting the newest hardware. Well, Intel actually seems to get their open source driver support in far enough ahead of time these days that you can just load the newest Ubuntu with them and it works, but that wasn't the case 5 years ago.
true. and still, intel drivers are a landmine. even the latest ones shipped today generates FIFO warnings because of the bad code. Not to mention itel "graphic cards" are a glorified floating point co-coprocessor and the "drivers" just rename mesa-software with intelgfx or something :) man, everything about intel lately feels like a joke you remove the marketing lacquer... it's almost if they are the IBM of old. anyw…
That is hilariously false. I work on the drivers. They're open source. Go take a look.