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I've been using Nvidia cards for years on Linux and never had a single problem.

I’ve used Nvidia on Linux since owning a 670. Their proprietary driver works only OK.

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.

Ok. On my end the first one I had that could do fast compute was a GTX 280, then a 590, then a 1080ti which I still have.

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.

They didn't get flipped off for having bad drivers. They got flipped off for having closed source off-tree drivers.

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.

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