AMD = Awesome!
Nvidia = A heck lot more better than a few years ago. A Many users do not have a problem.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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I switched from Win11 to EndeavourOS about 3 years ago. The first 4 months were a bit rough on the nvidia driver side and I had to learn and configure some stuff. Ever since tue nvidia drivers became a lot more robust and I didn't have a single issue.
Nvidia RTX on Linux is generally ok, AMD is great
Nvidia cards older than RTX might not be good, their drivers are outdated
I've been running Linux on a 1070 Ti for at least 5 years now and I have no driver issues.
Most distros figure that out by themselves.
If you pick a hands-on distro, expect to be hands on, but if you want stuff to just work, there are distros that make it just work.
The drivers may not be super fresh, but that would be unreasonable to expect of a GPU released 9 years ago. But it still runs the games I need it to.
Sadly, with the 595 drivers nvidia dropped support for the 10x0 series of gpus, and some distributions like nobara therefore also dropped support. At least the latest available drivers are in a usable state compared to what they were 2 years back.
My 1050 ti laptop is better than ever after installing Bazzite! Menus work and I can navigate my OS! Every game has worked barred one rythem shooter epic was giving away. Mightve been a unity issue but ehh shrug
Nice! Bazzite is pretty convenient for pre-RTX users since it has a dedicated iso for them, so drivers are pre-installed
For AMD, better than windows
No joke. I don't even know what Mesa driver version I have. I just don't need to know it's all in kernel.
don't even have to know what mesa is, it's just there and it does its job quietly
amdgpu is good, but I'm still avoiding nvidia stuff for driver reasons.
For the average user, indistinguishable from windows.
What, did Windows somehow get better?
I still have the last breath of "modernly supported" with an nvidia 2080 that I'm planning to upgrade when something amd is on sale in my budget. So far there are a couple hiccups that are entirely nvidias fault but generally everything runs fine. As far as display and gaming support it's been great. Everything just works on steam et al. Performance has been really good.
Heads up, pretty much all AMD gpu's are more of a side grade for an RTX 2080. That being said, I made a similar jump from a RTX 3070ti to an RX 9070XT, so you won't get any judgement from me
I wouldnt call over 100% performance uplift with a 9070XT a sidegrade(even with RT enabled). Every card above or newer than a 7800XT is a straight upgrade. Besides maybe a 9060 with 8GB VRAM but that could be said about any 8GB VRAM card.
AMD GPU support is excellent and built into the kernel, but i'd still hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU, but I'd hesitate to day 1 a newly released GPU on windows too (and this is for amd, intel and nvidia)
nvidia is more of a headache, but a lot of distros have nvidia specific packs so you don't have to deal with the nvidia driver headache yourself, but not entirely perfect.
Intel is still developing its drivers, some updates seeing some big gains.. But theres also concern of intel going Ouroboros in the whole "We're releasing a new product, but its not selling as much as we want due to our history of cancelling products early causing consumer hesitation, so we're cancelling this product early because of consumer hesitation" and intel owners being left in a lurch of abandoned products.
Personally, I would get an AMD gpu. not out of some weird parasocial obsession with a multi-billion dollar company, but simply because its the most easy, best supported, most plug-n-play gpu to use on linux
Yes.
It’s really good, at least for my radeon.
I went with an AMD GPU for the best compatibility (I use Fedora Workstation) and it has been fantastic. Another thing to mention is that even though you don't have access to the Adrenaline software, Mesa drivers work in the background and an application called LACT gives you everything you need tweak/OC, adjust the fans, and check the thermals.
I run a 4090 on fedora workstation gnome. Rpm fusion makes installation a simple command from the command line - haven’t had a single problem for years.
Running an RTX 5070 on CachyOS here.
Everything runs super smoothly on my 1440p monitor for the games I play (World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, and No Man's Sky). I’ve also had no issues running local LLMs on the GPU via ollama.
General desktop usage with KDE Plasma on Wayland has been flawless so far
I have an rx 7900 xtx. Works like a charm with more fps compared to windows
Running an Nvidia RTX 5070 mobile on Linux Mint. Gaming works fine. I've only played Fallout: New Vegas yet, but several gaming benchmarks ran well. However, the laptop doesn't wake up from sleep mode and it seems to be related to the video drivers, so that's a nuisance.
Just to give my 2 cents I have an intel Arc A770 and it runs flawless :)
Rtx 3080 with Cachyos. Plug-and-play, both for videogames and production tasks.
I've used a 3070ti and currently a 5070 on Nobara (Fedora), and since they finally implemented explicit sync, my issues are pretty much gone completely. No hiccups, no crashes, performance is comparable to windows with better frame pacing from the feel of it. Everything up to path tracing works fine, and LLMs / Imagegen works fine as well.
I had no issues with my 4060Ti, except DLSS support was spotty - however I read an article that covered Nvidia providing official FOSS support for DLSS, so maybe that's improved. Still having no issues on my laptop with Iris Xe integrated chip set.
I'm on Mint with. 5060ti. Does great for gaming and local AI