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Ugh. I've been wanting to switch for a while but that's a bummer to hear. I might just have to bite the bullet and deal with buggy drivers. Back when I got my monitors like 6 years ago there wasn't a ton of options for sub-ms IPS displays with adaptive sync technology so I had to go with Acer Predators and G-Sync but now I'm kinda stuck with NVIDIA. I'm sure there's more options for monitors now but I'm not dropping that kind of money on monitors again.
Unless something has changed? Is GSync still proprietary? (Edit: looks like G-Sync does work on AMD cards now but only for newer monitors, dang.)
Ironically, I remember not long ago it was AMD that used to have the crap Linux drivers.
100% this, nvidia may be scumbag dickholes, but I've never had any problems with simple gaming on Linux with nvidia.
Pop!_OS is often recommended as noob friendly OS for nvidia gamers https://pop.system76.com/
All you really have to do is make sure the distribution of Linux you're installing supports Nvidia out of the box. Their drivers are not that bad anymore, they used to be much worse.