My experience is that linux nvidia drivers are better than the competitors open source drivers.
But it means I can't use Wayland. Wayland isn't critical for me, but since NVidia is refusing to implement GBM and using EGLStream instead, there's nothing I can do about it. It simply isn't worth NVidia's time to make Wayland work, so I'm stuck using X. If the driver were open-source someone would have submitted a GBM patch and i wouldn't be stuck in this predicament.
I can't wait for NVidia to have real competition in the ML space so I can ditch them.
Now you can't use something like Sway but their lead developer is too evangelical for my taste so even if I had an AMD/Intel card I would never use it.
You can do that on Intel and AMD drivers and other open source graphics drivers, which due to being open source allow 3rd parties like redhat to patch in GBM support in drivers and mesa when required.
Nvidia driver does not support GBM code paths. Therefore wayland does not work on nvidia. And because nvidia driver is not open source, someone else cannot patch GBM in.
What you cannot use is applications that use OpenGL or Vulkan acceleration. GBM is used for sharing buffers across APIs handled by GPU. If your Wayland clients use just shm to communicate with compositor, it will work.
Why is Intel not a competition? In laptops, I want only Intel, nothing else. It is the smoothest/most reliable/least buggy thing you may have.
For most uses, Intel GPU is fine.
No doubt someone more knowledgeable about Linux could fix this issue, but I never had any issues with my nVidia blobs. That's not to say nVidia don't have their own issues.