Quoting: Nel

The largest distributions decided to deprecate the closed source binary drivers for ATI graphics and switch over to their open source ones.

I thought it was the opposite: AMD refused to support their Catalyst drivers for newer Xorg versions (stopped at v1.17 iirc) and focus on AMDGPU (-PRO for the closed parts). That's why all distros purely and simply ditched Catalyst driver as they don't want to release old version of X. Am I wrong?

You are partly right. AMD did indeed decide to ditch Catalyst and concentrate on open-source and AMDGPU-PRO. Canonical, on the other hand, might have been able to force some support out of them for a short while, but because 16.04 being an LTS, that was also not an option. So this was the best decision from both sides. For some people, this is a bit frustrating, but it is also a big step, and a very positive on that. AMD drivers nowadays are like a high-speed rail always in motion.
And as other developers said before, it is easier with Mesa, where they can really look into things when encountering something, than with something like Catalyst which is quite a mystery, even for AMD (last time I read something about being lines in there no one knows what they do, but are afraid to break something if removed).

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Will definitely follow this and keep my wallet prepared.

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Quoting: EikeSo Linux and other builds are released the same day?
I didn't watch Unity lately, is this usual these days?

That's definitely something new. Seems like they are catching up and things are getting more stable.

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Quoting: boltronicsIt's quite frustrating. I kinda feel like, if I can't have working free software distro-supported graphics on AMD, why not just buy Nvidia?

Don't you think this statement sounds ridiculous knowing how Nvidia "supports" free and open drivers? Also, microcode stuff seems to be a trend lately, even with Intel.
I don't say this is good, but AMD is not the only one out there doing things this way. Even so, they made the largest turn in the last few years compared to others and who knows what they still have in plans.

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Quoting: GuestSource code not provided, of course (and shame on AMD for that).

AMDGPU-PRO is closed source and will be. Don't understand what you meant by this.

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Quoting: z3ntuWell I have a HD7970 in my tower at home, so hopefully they will support that card in the future (I mostly use my laptop (Nvidia) right now).

This new closed driver needs the open amdgpu on the kernel side. For GCN 1.0, there is only experimental support not enabled by default in amdgpu. Even GCN 1.1 support is still experimental, while it's in a much better condition. So yes, there will be support eventually, at least it seems so. But you will have to wait for it patiently.

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Quoting: minjSo is Broadwell the limit for intel? It's been released in September, 2014. 18 months as a limit for a CPU, wtf?

I hope they will continue backporting it.

Again, according to Phoronix, it should work way back to Ivy. Though that doesn't mean perfect performance and expect some issues, problems (hopefully only minor).

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According to Phoronix, Nvidia already has a beta kind of driver for Linux, while AMD only has something alpha/beta like for Windows. The latter for Linux is still not in a good shape and will require the new amdgpu driver (GCN 1.2 and newer) when it arrives, after the Windows release.
I know their hands are full with other open source Linux things, but they can't say they didn't have time for it (since Mantle).

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Quoting: CimerydHow are your guys playing this? I can't even get the game files over Steam. I know I have to rename something because the developers didn't even bother trying it on Linux, but I have nothing to even rename.

http://i.imgur.com/sL51H5m.png [External Link]

Installed the game a few times just to confirm, every time it's an empty folder.

As far as I know, they already released a patch fixing the renaming problem. Yours seem to be some kind of wrong download. Try redownloading and verifying it.

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Case sensitivity is really a big mistake on their part, but remember, Unity itself was developed this way. It was not until recently, that they put effort to change this in the engine, while developing the Unity Editor for Linux.

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