NVidia has always been more of a pain under Linux for at least the past 5 years, even if AMD wasn't contributing much to the open source drivers code-wise at th

NVidia has always been more of a pain under Linux for at least the past 5 years, even if AMD wasn't contributing much to the open source drivers code-wise at the time they published hardware specifications for their cards so the mesa and DRM developers could do a halfway decent job. My Radeon R9 290 worked quite well without installing fglrx, as did my Radeon HD 7850. I'm actually at the point where I need an upgrade for my work laptop, and I am going to seriously push for something that doesn't use NVidia graphics since they're such a pain to deal with under Linux (especially Optimus, holy crap).