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[–] GodofGrunts 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I may be mistaken but I'm pretty sure that one of the biggest problems with official AMD Linux drivers a few years ago was the fact that AMD was constantly butting heads with distros that wanted them to implement it in their way or the highway.

AMD used to require a certain build of Xorg. This was a huge problem (on their part, not the distros) because it would take months before they would support a newer version and distros are always updating software.

For an example, this is Nvidia's current xorg requirements:

xorg: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17

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AMDs is:

Xorg/Xserver 7.4 and above (up to 1.16)

Source

Xorgserver 1.17 came out in February. Source

4 months and AMD doesn't support the newest release yet. Let's see what the main distros are on now.

Ubuntu 15.04 = 1.17 Source

Mint = 1.15 Source

Fedora 22 = 1.17 Source

OpenSuse 13.x = 1.17 Source

Debian 8 (Jessie) = 1.16.4 Source

Arch = 1.17.2 Source

Those are roughly in order of most likely to be used by regular users. 4/6 are running 1.17 and would not work with AMD's driver.

EDIT: Forgot source for AMDs requirements.

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[–] lawofchaos ago 

Ah ok, thanks for that informative post. I was running on how I heard it a few years ago when I was still brand new to Linux and most likely misunderstood it then. On Windows I am absolutely pleased with AMD but on Linux they have been a pain in the ass from the start. I've never actually had the pleasure of owning an Nvidia card, how are their drivers on Linux? Can they compare with their Windows counterparts or are they one size fits all and featureless like AMD's Linux drivers?

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[–] GodofGrunts 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

They're better than AMDs for sure and are competitive with their Windows drivers.

This benchmark is a little old, but it was a nice one that compared both on the same hardware.