AMD cards are OK in Linux. You can do stuff.

So long as that stuff isn't games, yeah.

(They work, sure, but at like a 50% fps hit compared to Windows. Which is unacceptable. They work better with the open source drivers though, which is cool (but also illustrates quite how bad AMD's drivers are)).

I don't use linux for gaming, just for dev, image editing (gimp) & such. My amd card works great for all those things. One thing though, posting on teh in Chrome is slow as hell*. Latest Chrome builds are really struggling with javascript (I'm assuming the teh editor is js-based). Even jquery fx that were smooth as silk turned choppy about a month ago. But they're still smooth in Midori (also webkit).

*I should clarify: typing is slow as hell, posting is normal.

£16 on humble store today. I was a little bit optimistic but not miles out.

My first graphics card was a Voodoo with 2mb of RAM.  It was mighty!

I lusted after a Voodoo card. I just couldn't afford or justify it.

I stuck mainly with Matrox. Thems were the days when I gave a damn about graphics cards.