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Linux is great until you want to update your graphics card or play games. Sure it has gotten much better, but you can't deny it's a massive hassle for the majority of new users.
I didn't realize how hostile the Linux community is. I have an Nvidia card and I've never had a pleasant experience trying to make it work.
Yeah afaik any AMD card should work out of the box with the Linux kernel, which includes AMD drivers. Never had any problems with my AMD card. Even on Nvidia it worked, admittedly proprietary Nvidia graphics driver updates frequently broke my graphics but downgrading (in a tty or even a chroot if I can't do it graphically, I think I only ever needed a tty though I don't think I ever needed to chroot because of an nvidia update) fixed it, and using outdated Nvidia drivers was not too big of a deal, I didn't notice game performance issues.
And gaming on Linux is completely fine if you don't have any kind of funky setup (like musl or whatever). The majority of my steam library has native linux versions, those that don't play fine with Wine/Proton.