AMD confused the gaming community greatly after it announced it would put RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 driver support in “maintenance mode”, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/amd-clarifies-that-rdna-1-and-2-will-still-get-day-zero-game-support-and-driver-updates-discrete-gpus-and-handhelds-will-still-work-with-future-games” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpu-drivers/amd-clarifies-that-rdna-1-and-2-will-still-get-day-zero-game-support-and-driver-updates-discrete-gpus-and-handhelds-will-still-work-with-future-games”>but later corrected that the two architectures would still be receiving game optimizations regardless. Apparently, this confusion also led some people to believe game optimizations would also stop on AMD’s Linux drivers as well. Luckily, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-Discontinued” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDVLK-Discontinued” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>Phoronix has published an article reaffirming that Linux support has not changed with this announcement, primarily because Linux AMD…
