Making PC great again - what hardware should I buy?

[Trunkin]

WolfpackN64 said:

Trunkin said:
Nvidia cards work way, way, WAY better in Linux than AMD. Like, it's not even close, unless you're using the open source drivers for your GPU, in which case Nvidia is garbage. I'd really like to support AMD, but I'd be basically shooting myself in the foot. Check the benchmarks. Unless something drastic changed with this latest gen, you pretty much have just one option for Linux gaming: Nvidia.

It's not that dramatic. The AMDGPU driver has made leaps and bounds and the difference with Catalyst isn't as big anymore. Nvidia needs closed source drivers to work and that's just silly on Linux. I game on linux with an old R7 265 and it works just fine.

You're right. I may have exaggerated a tad, based on my experience of seeing the gtx960 outperform literally every AMD card in a benchmark a few years back. Still, there is a gap, and in most situations Nvidia performance difference between Linux and Windows is smaller than AMD. Those  recent 480x benchmarks give me some hope, though. It might be worth it jumping ship soon. AMD is much more attractive to me as a company, and their commitment to open standards is commendable.

As for open source, I figured that anyone gaming in Linux had pretty much already resigned themselves to using closed source software in some capacity.