content: After an 18-month-long bug with the nvidia drivers, I finally switched to an AMD card (R9-380) and could not be happier. I tried a few cheap Steam games, just to see how well steam has done with Linux support, and I am still on the fence when it comes to recommending Linux as a platform for games.    The few games I tried all had great graphics, super high framerates, 1920x1080, all effects enabled, and displayed without issue.  but they also all had their fair share of glitches - frequent (repeatable) hanging of not just the game, but the entire system - "This is a known issue on the Linux release that we are working on, so try Windows instead."  "No, you can't browse an external drive in Linux, because Linux doesn't use drive letters."  and so on.  I'm disappointed in the performance of all of the games I tried, but not because of the GPU, but because Linux. Once the software authors start actually developing for Linux (as opposed to developing a game for Windows and then trying to get it patched/ported) and once Linux has a chance to mature some more, then it may be a gaming platform.  But to your point, the AMD/ATI driver installed without incident, and has not given me any issues at all.  In my experience, in terms of "does it just work?" the R9 380 card is working far better than the GTX970 did.