Supposed to be cheap… riiiight…
I stopped acknowledging radeon exists. When AMD pulls a gpu equivalent of Ryzen, I’ll pay attention.
I may grab one some day, but my 6800 XT is still chugging along. I live the all AMD life since I’ve been only running Linux and Nvidia has realllllyyyy bad drivers with Linux.
I used to always try Linux first before Windows, now I don’t even dual boot. Linux is still a chore. An unpaid chore. I’ll go back to it again when compatibility is no longer part of the conversation. Steam OS has the best bet of eventually making that become a reality. I’ll wait. As for AMD, they won’t enter my thoughts until feature parody with nvidia becomes a thing. That and they start competing with 90 grade cards again.
I think the only games I have issues with (and can’t play) are ones that have kernel level anticheat. I don’t really play those anyway, so no skin off my back.
For me it wasn’t just running, it had to run the same or better…or at least >60fps at max settings. I don’t recall if gsync was a thing yet or if I had a gsync monitor, but if that didn’t work linux would be a no go across the board.
I just bought an all AMD system.
CPU: Ryzen 9800x3d
GPU: RX 9070XT (I think its the Asus TUF OC 340W edition or whatever the OC version is called, not sure yet)
RAM: 32GB DDR5 from Kingston (I think)
PSU: 1000W from Seasonic
MOBO: MSI X870 something something elite
The moment I receive it, I’ll slap Linux on it and test 7 million games with it. I expect it to run 1440p maxed out with high fps. PC should be arriving on Wednesday, I hope.
I’ve also been using Linux for about 3, 4 months now. Everything works out of the box even with my old RTX 2080. They really improved the gaming experience and so far I’ve had 0 issues with Linux whatsoever. The anti-cheat thing is unfortunately a bummer. Still have Windows installed for BF2042 and League of Legends because my friends are playing it and these games do not work on linux because of the kernel level anticheat. 
ONE OF US
I’ve been running Nobara for over a year now. No issues at all either.
I may go to PikaOS some day, but I am also exceptionally lazy.
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I have actually never heard of PikaOS and it does look nice. I’ve been running ArchLinux and Ubuntu after I tried Bazzite for a couple of weeks. I do want to try PopOS as well. We’ll see. I love how you can just try everything whenever you want lol
Also, isn’t Nobara like a handheld/HTPC designed OS? Something like SteamOS?
The problem with pop is that it isn’t very up to date as a base.
They have HTPC mode, but it can install as a full desktop environment.
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