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Xen on 24 September 2017
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caffeinade said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw

Xen said:

Yeah, not only are they inferior to Nvidia (from experience...), but they frequently don't even bother to make any - see the recent AMD on Ubuntu 16.04 and later situation (no idea as to other distros, I assume it's a kernel thing though). Meanwhile, You can take an old Fermi video card and it's gonna have either the most recent or a close to driver on Linux.

Going Linux, go Nvidia for now.

It is generally accepted that Nvidia are not the people to go to for your Linux driver needs.
AMD actively helps the open source community.
I use a RX 460 on my main Linux box and it works perfectly (using Debain 10).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVpOyKCNZYw
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Nouveau-XDC2017

AMD are too lazy and cheap to support anything older than your 460 (or most architectures that are not the latest, or near so) on a recent distro/kernel, meanwhile Nvidia has a great prorietary driver, available for cards as old as the GT480 (and probably older..) from ~2010 IIRC. Nouveau is crap, and perhaps it is so because of Nvidia, but there is no reason at all to go Nouveau when you can go proprietary.

Helps the open source or not, it does not really matter to the average user: Nvidia supports more cards, supports them longer, and does not rely on enthusiasts to do their job. Best case scenario these days - https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Driver-for-Linux-Release-Notes.aspx , which misses a huge lot of older cards.