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I mean, it seems like Nvidia barely even cares about gamers in general anymore, let alone linux users.

It's sort of like WiFi and 5G mobile drivers (especially the software driven radios), a lot of proprietary stuff is in the driver that reveals hardware secrets. GPU is also regulated now for export controls from USA-derived technology. With software-driven radios, you see a lot of effort to keep people from using bands outside their national laws.

Nvidia makes money no matter what because they have the fastest hardware on the market

As far as I understand, they are pretty compatible with Linux, it's just open sourcing the drivers that they don't want to do.

Nvidia has always been a pain in the ass. At least we get source code now. That is why I switched to AMD/ATI years ago. I haven't kept up though if they are still good players or not.

It works perfectly fine if you use the closed source drivers..it just needs a few extra steps.

Not so, if you are OK using x11 you will probably have zero issues. Wayland support, however, is shit. I had a 1660 super when I switched and it was good. Just when I had two monitors with different refresh rates it get weird, x11 does not support it at all (there is some workarounds but they are workarounds). Wayland fix the issue but nvidia support for Wayland was veeery bad at the end of last year, when I switched to AMD.

The thing about being open source is just that the community could help move things faster and would not need to wait the good will of nvidia for everithing, but nvidia is still moving slow towards open source, it does not means that they aren't doing things and fixing bugs, just they are a bit slow and stubborn

There's always this deluge of posts of the absolute horror of nVidia in Linux.

Yes, nVidia is an evil capitalistic company. No they don't care much about Linux. Except when it suits them. Right now it's in the data center.
But then, AMD doesn't care that much either. Why would they, there aren't really any Linux users. They're both soulless corporation that would sell your children's kidney's without a second thought if they could make a dollar from it.

Now in practice, whatever you use, stuff mostly works 99.5 % of the time. There's no difference between nVidia and AMD (or intel), they all work fine.

Don't get drawn in stupid corporate dick sucking contests, it's completely pointless. Use what you want, or what you have, it doesn't matter.

I can see how you would get that impression, but it is false. NVIDIA drivers are mostly fine today. They used to be abysmal, and still under the hood don’t work like everyone wants them to. The do, however, work. And for the most part they work well. Wayland can be a bit buggy, but I’ve been using kde Wayland for over a year now on an older nvidia system and I have experienced one bug that was a minor inconvenience.

I’ve found that Linux tends to be a much better experience with an AMD GPU. The nvidia driver is mostly fine but would regularly cause my desktop to crash.

I have an rtx card and the only issues I've experience is a resume from suspend/hibernate bug where it locks up. I just disable sleep/hibernate, let my monitor turn off still, and shut down my PC whenever I'm done.

EDIT: I also have had the best luck with arch but I'm picky about pre installed software.

I used an nvidia gaming laptop on different distros for more than 5 years without any issues. The nvidia driver works great. The only thing lagging is the noveau open source driver like mesa for amd.

It works most of the time, but since NVIDIA is the only one fixing your drivers, chances are your bugs won't be fixed.

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Not true at all anymore. Distros like NobaraOS set things up by default (and increases gaming performance by ~4% over fedora according to Linux Experiment) so you don't really have to worry

It's just not as convenient as AMD for power users

I'm on hybrid Intel/Nvidia, and it works fine. The discrete card isn't particularly powerful, so I don't use it much, but it works pretty much as I would expect. If you're wary, just try on a live USB. It won't harm your computer as long as you check it's working before installing, and if it works on there it should work once installed. Might be best to start with a distro that at least has a toggle for proprietary drivers in the installer though, so you don't have to do any faffing about yourself.

Depends on your expectations, it won't be as streamlined as amd/Intel but if you are not too picky it should be enough to have a usable machine.

Nvidia works great on Linux. Don't let the wieners scare you away.

Some distros are better than others when it comes to packaging the drivers. PopOS is the best imo.

Nvidia works better than people give it credit for and AMD doesn't work as seamlessly as people claim.

People will tell you "no, it's fine!"

But no, it's filled with issues: audio output via a monitor plugged into the GPU will have several artifacts, you'll randomly face Vsync issues, YouTube embedded videos will roll a D20 dice to determine wether hardware decoding will work correctly today or not.

Oh, and a few months ago, every single Debian based distro would boot into a black screen if you had official updated Nvidia drivers.

Nvidia drivers have some kind of stupid locking issue when it comes to creating windows, when my phone spams me notifications to pushbullet or kdeconnect it locks up half my system.

AMD has none of that, windows pop up like nothing, kind of impressed because I'd been team green since literally forever (back when fglrx was a crashy pos).