I can tell you from my own experience with Ubuntu , it was a bit of a pain to get it up to gaming pc par . Real confusing mess of installing AMD drivers I could use the officially supported one , the open source one that is still for some reason also made and maintained by AMD , or I could roll my own , none of which seemed to enable desktop UI GPU acceleration . It was also completely impossible for me to replicate Speedfan on Linux , because there ' s only one program in the entire world of linux that measures temperatures , and that ' s lmsensors everything else uses lmsensors as a dependency . And lmsensors can ' t find even half the sensors that Speedfan can . Then there was also the fun of getting gaming peripherals to work , like getting my wireless xbox 360 controller to work without the stupid green light spinning and flashing forever . Or getting the force feedback on my steering wheel to work . I like Linux , I use Lubuntu on my notebook because it ' s a million times faster than Windows . It ' s just a little bit complicated to bring it up to what you ' re used to with a Windows gaming pc .