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In terms of gmaing performance I would rate the Nvidia driver still better than anything for AMD.
Also power consumption should be in general lower with Nvidia.
As Nvidia is used in many professional linux based environments Nvidia has a very good motivation to continue delivering well performing Linux drivers. They actually really make money with it.
I'm still wondering why AMD can't transform it to an software advantage, that they are the standard for Mac GFX workstations.
The only reason I can think of switching to AMD now (besides Ether/Monero Mining where Vega is superior) would be that for some reason my system drivers should be as much FOSS as possible.
At least I'm waiting until 2019 to replace my 1070. But yes, because of the recent developments AMD could be my primary choice just for driver/supporting Linux community reasons. At least if the support stays on this level or gets even better.
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Swapped a GTX 1080 for a rx64 due to issues, you are just talking complete shit tbh
Used antergos mid last year on a old athlon xp3200 system with a 4870 in it, Worked out of the box no issues! thats a 10+ year old card for a start.
Anything earlier than that isn't really AMD's fault as they didn't buy ATI until mid 2006
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You are rich enough if you can buy a 1080 in your computer in my opinion. BTW, AMD still supports the APU in my laptop, which cannot be a newer branch than from 2011-12, and it still happily runs games as well as a reasonably modern distro, so you are clearly wrong on that point.
What are the bells and whistles you are missing?
This was one of my main reasons to jump AMD(had a gtx1080) as their desktop experience is plain shocking, and to be frank gaming want much better regards bugs/issues. Certainly a far cry from the "Nvidia work perfect under linux" BS touted about
I can't confirm/infirm the smoothness issue - I didn't seem to have problems there. However, KDE was still crashing for me regardless, so I didn't get a more stable experience. (I tried KDE 5.12 like two weeks ago).
So I'm back to GNOME on Wayland for gaming, and XFCE on Xorg for VR.
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I think the main thing is what distro you use as you'll need to have KDE, mesa and the kernel as up to date as possible for a good experience :)
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I have had kwin crash while starting a game which is very rare, but easily fixed with "kwin_x11 --replace"
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