I think you’re absolutely right at the high-end, but if I have a cheaper or older machine (especially laptop) and I’m not going to play AAA games on it anyway, this driver could eventually lead to decent performance with even greater stability than the proprietary ones.
I don’t think an open source driver will ever fully catch up to the proprietary ones in this case, but for people who want to use only open drivers if it eventually gets somewhat close that might be enough.
Sounds promising
Are carpool lanes less common outside the US?
Where I am even some of the non-freeway roads have them.
I meant in the sense of could possibly, but I don’t have a guess on how likely.
I am extrapolating on the stability thing just based on the language it’s coded in, which isn’t any kind of guarantee, but I think it is a good sign