My Desktop (HP Pro) is AMD, and those three letters have never looked so good right now!
But my laptops are screwed, though.
Yeah, same at least my main is good
The new, patched kernel code runs slower on AMD processors as well, because what used to be huge hardware optimizations on any contemporary family of CPUs are entirely bypassed (for example, by constantly flushing caches), to keep privileged information safe. This is why the Linux command du -s now runs only half as fast, even on an AMD processor. The only way to get around this would be to have a different copy of the O/S for Intel and AMD! Might be where things are headed!