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AMD's card are much better supported by free drivers. If you plan to use a modern distribution as a desktop, I strongly recommend going with AMD.


Unless you plan to use Steam, which still has no real support for those drivers. You can find guides to modify the LD_PRELOAD to get some stuff working though.


I'm using Steam with those drivers and nearly everything works fine. The only thing I can remember right now that doesn't is Divinity Original Sin. It is broken and the developer Larian Studios refuses to fix it.


Unless you want to use your desktop for anything else but gaming, then you will have to go NVIDIA.


I'm gaming, and it works fine. I actually had a newer NVIDIA card, and replaced it with my older AMD card, because the AMD one worked better.




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