I belive this is talking about radeonhd/radeon/ati circa 2015 or earlier.
Around then, you still had to install the corresponding X11 portion of the drivers, though the nvidia eqiuvalent had the same limitation.
radeon/radeonhd, or fglrx (which was the propriertary AMD graphics) absolutely worked worse than nouveau or the proprietary nvidia drivers at that time. It was only a couple of years into amdgpu where the tables turned.
At this point it would be nice if they'd backport their Linux drivers to Windows, as I'm now on my third AMD GPU in 12-13 years (HD 5770, r9 290x, 6900XT) to have issues where the driver will randomly crash when playing hardware accelerated video on one monitor while playing a directx game on another monitor under Windows.
Around then, you still had to install the corresponding X11 portion of the drivers, though the nvidia eqiuvalent had the same limitation.
radeon/radeonhd, or fglrx (which was the propriertary AMD graphics) absolutely worked worse than nouveau or the proprietary nvidia drivers at that time. It was only a couple of years into amdgpu where the tables turned.
At this point it would be nice if they'd backport their Linux drivers to Windows, as I'm now on my third AMD GPU in 12-13 years (HD 5770, r9 290x, 6900XT) to have issues where the driver will randomly crash when playing hardware accelerated video on one monitor while playing a directx game on another monitor under Windows.