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I never had crashes but, having switched from a 1070 (proprietary) to a 6800 (open) this week, the experience is far better. Things that were previously nigh-on impossible to get right, like fixing screen tearing, or freesync without bizarre performance penalties, just work now.

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I keep flip-flopping between these as my needs change. I flipped to proprietary last time I tried some Steam games. I will gladly switch back to open source drivers if I'm wrong in thinking game performance on linux will suffer?

probably a whole bunch of depends, but I haven't noticed any performance problems with my 6800xt in linux.

Partly this will be because I'm not playing games like CS:GO not cyperpunk, but I'm capped on 144hz with latest OSS drivers.

Not played anything very intensive yet, but Rocket League and Deep Rock Galactic, each via Proton, are performing way better than they were before, in line with what you'd expect moving from a 1070 to a 6800.

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