That’s fine by me. No one in my household uses Windows anyways (except for my bitch ass brother); thank goodness. On Linux, I’ll have many more years of support with a 500 series. Mom’s got a system running Linux with and RX 570. And I have an RX 580. We are very happy. The irony is that Mesa provides better drivers than AMD does for Windows.
AMD was doing nothing for Polaris in years anyway
Because there was nothing todo for it. At some point in time you have fixed most performance issues, bugs and other things. The cards simply work as intended. Your not going to keep a dozen of programmers on a expensive payroll just to update the polaris or vega drivers. You focus on the new released cards, RDNA1, 2 and now 3.
They could bring features like RSR or FMF to Polaris and Vega.
You can get RSR on Polaris and Vega by using Magpie. It’s a little quirky to use at first, but it works.