Yes, but with NVidia at least they get it right and do it prior to benchmarking and selling into the retail channel, rather than the other way around.
And they - rightly - get plenty of flak for it.
And they - rightly - get plenty of flak for it.
As soon as you want to use Linux or macOS or Proxmox or anything, prepare for trouble. Its just not a FOSS-friendly company.
Even on the Nvidia Shield TV (a great bang for the buck) they added commercials in the new UI. Though one might attribute that to Google, it is the only Nvidia device I bought past 5 years. And the only one which got a feature downgrade (or upgrade with a feature I don't want/like).
With regards to Intel I remember my 4770k not having a specific feature (IIRC for hardware virtualization) which all non-k series had. And I found that out too late.
It even works with multi-screen setups and using the rest of the memory for CUDA.
You don’t get flipped off by Linus T for having good drivers. You also don’t have to wait years for wayland to work if your driver is good.
Maybe I've just been lucky but over all that time not a single glitch. The main gripe I have with them is having you jump through hoops to be allowed to download certain libraries. That's just a complete nuisance. And I think their TOS are unethical.
The NVIDIA driver on Linux is extremely good and in my experience of better quality than AMD, but sorely lacking in modern features such as Wayland support. We still don't have decent hardware encoding nor raytracing support on AMD, the champions of free software, while DLSS and NVENC have been running on Linux for a while now.
I run AMD GPUs now but I'm quite done with the NVIDIA hate boner the Linux world has.