For many AMD graphic card users, these few months are doom. In Fedora land, the voluenteer who packages and maintains AMD proprietary drivers abondons this work. Therefore, people can hardly install these drivers. In a broader field, GNOME Shell is using a new compositor called Wayland right now, but AMD proprietary drivers still cannot support it. In this situation, AMD graphic card users can only install proprietary driver from vendor's official website, and it needs some adjustments to make it work. In the other hand, AMD users have to switch to XFCE or LXDE desktop environment in order to make everything working well. This is a tough situation for AMD users.
However, if people do not abondon you, you cannot abondon yourself. Yes, AMD prorietary drivers suck, but free and open source drivers will never stop improve. Recently, Linux Kernel release its new version -- 3.13. This release supports AMD graphic card so much better than prior version. In this version, AMD Radeon power management enables defaultly, and the AMD Radeon GPU switches automatically(Timothy, 2014). Although people cannot expect that this update will tremendously improve the 3D graphic performance in free and open source driver, it will make AMD users feel much better in normal daily use.
However, this article is not going encourage you to buy an AMD based computer, or continue to use AMD in high performance areas for long term purpose. The reason is that, although Linux Kernel and free open source software improves continually, they still contain blobs. It means that, Linux Kernel's default drivers are based on non-free firmware mostly. In order to use a real full free computer system, you need to choose to buy a computer which does not require non-free firmware or blobs. This is what we encourage you to do.
Have fun, be free!
Timothy. (2014). Linux 3.13 Released. Slashdot. Retrieved from http://linux.slashdot.org/story/14/01/20/0432213/linux-313-released