Quad-Monitor AMD/NVIDIA Linux Gaming: What You Need To Know

Lastly with Xonotic, which is easily one of the best open-source games available with decent graphics and art assets, the 3840 x 2160 quad-monitor performance was playable for all tested graphics cards except for the Radeon HD 6950 on the R600g driver.

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With all of the information from this article (and now that the PSAs are out of the way), if you are after a multi-monitor Linux desktop experience I would certainly recommend the latest NVIDIA Kepler GPUs for the best experience with their binary drivers. The binary drivers worked fine throughout testing and didn't encounter problems like the other drivers. The nvidia-settings program also makes it incredibly easy to fully configure all GPU and display attributes.