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I've had multiple generations of Nvidia GPUs in my PCs, all the way back from a Riva TNT up to a GTX 460 as the last one.

I switched to an RX560 and I couldn't be happier. Linux drivers that actually work and aren't a mostly closed source garbage heap. The current Windows drivers are fine too.

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Am I the only person on this site who has had no issues with the blob (aside from Wayland), especially on desktop? The last actual thing that I remember being a bit of a pain was an Optimus laptop years ago but from what I understand that’s finally been officially fixed; the desktop cards worked quite well, including the 2060 in my current desktop.

No, I've been using NVIDIA Linux drivers on RedHat/CentOS for the last 14 years and seldom had anything like the problems everyone complains of here.

I've not had much luck on laptops with NVIDIA Optimus though, maybe that's improved.

The current situation with Wayland and EGLStreams is regrettable though.

Yup, I've got about a dozen motherboard/video card combinations that I'm adminning. All of them require some sort of hack to get the binary driver to work with our code. Most require a kernel flag, some require sub-optimal bios settngs, some require pinning to an old version, and one requires a monitor attached to boot.

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