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"Apart from a majority of graphics cards it's a non-issue"

Surely a majority of graphics cards are the integrated Intel and AMD ones. Nvidia maybe has a majority of the high-end ones.

Fair enough! My desktop bias shows again

I’m running Nvidia on Wayland (Fedora) without issue. Recentish (3 year old laptop in my case) card. Games work great via Proton. I can’t complain.

Which Wayland compositor? Does it matter? I recently got an Intel iGPU + Nvidia dGPU machine.

Unfortunately, Nvidia has ~87% of the market share of discrete GPUs.

Discrete GPUs have ~20% share of the entire GPU market. For the vast majority, this is a non-issue.

Additionally, the Nvidia problems under Linux are very well known, so getting a Nvidia GPU for Linux is a self-inflicted problem.

People want to game, and a lot of gamers want Nvidia. The driver may or may not work, but if it has a reputation for maybe not working, people will decide against it.

It also possible that people who find out the Nvidia cards are unreliable on Linux are making decisions over other systems where this shouldn't be such a big deal.

Nvidia cards being unreliable on Linux make me choose an other card instead.