Posted 22 May 2016 - 11:53 PM

Litte update:If you are new to Linux, here some very basic info if you want to have Linux as your primary gaming platform:Most important notes: GPU drivers, as there are several different driver packages out there for Linux. You can pretty much enable any driver on every distribution and there are wikis out there that give you a step-by-step instruction if you want to do so. But back to the drivers:NVidia:There are only two drivers out there:1.) Closed Source from NVidia itself: Fast, stable, good.2.) Open Source: Slow, not all features available but: Open Source - this driver is more for the people who want everything Open Source, but its not up to the standards of todays gaming performance (yet)AMD:3 Drivers. I own one and I'm more happy to have one with every day, as the support for AMD cards is really ramping up and is already pretty close to NVidias driver performance. Lets say ~10% less, but thats VERY good. 1 year ago, the difference was ~70% less performance. They might even be faster than NVidia in the future, if this goes on...1.) Closed Source driver from AMD directly - (catalyst) - is becoming a legacy thing pretty fast in the last couple of months. AMD shifted their focus from their closed source dev to the Open Source dev and left their catalyst drivers lying dormant for quite some time now.2.) Open Source driver: En par with Catalyst and starts merging with the newest child of the driver family, AMDGPU. This is a solid, stable choice and is reasonably fast.3.) AMDGPU: This is the shining new vanguard for AMD card users. Newer cards have a pretty good support and it already has entries for the upcoming polaris architecture. This is a little more experimental and mostly for the newer cards (Radeon HD 8000 - RX300 including Fury and Nano (GCN 1.1+), but support for GCN 1.0 cards is added too (Radeon 7000 series)You can use the Arch Linux wiki to find out more if interested for both AMD and Nvidia Once I'm back from my holidays, I'll do another run with the latest drivers and will post the results.Another point:If we have an enthusiast in the forums roaming around with an NVIDIA card (something newer if possible... GTX 970+ maybe?), it would be nice to fill the whole Linux topic with the green team too. I don't care about AMD vs. NVidia and just want to get people to have a nicer gameplay away from the hassle of Windows shinanigans (input lag, spyware, massive overhead, borked network drivers etc)