It was a bit expensive, but everything "just works", it's super well built, and I've had no issues for 2 years. They definitely know what they're doing
(not affiliated, I just like it)
We get all developers at our company System 76 linux laptops as their primary dev machine (Lemur Pros with 40 GB of ram)
That said, I _do_ agree that the information isn't as well organized as a result of the nature of its creation.
I’ve never managed to get my GTX 1070 working on Linux without any caveats, though currently I’m closer than I’ve been before. If you’re happy using X11 life is relatively easy, though you probably end up needing a compositor to solve tearing - and if you have mixed refresh rates you’re seemingly out of luck even then.
Wayland is better with mixed refresh rates, and now mostly works. I say mostly as XWayland is still broken - you have to disable GLAMOUR and rely on software rendering for X applications. This is where I’ve currently settled as most software I use is native Wayland anyway.
Supposedly this’ll be fixed with a protocol change for explicit sync - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
Of course if you have a newer GPU that can take advantage of Nvidia’s new open source kernel drivers with Nouveau and you don’t need CUDA this is all irrelevant.
No issue for me on kubuntu LTS and I am using NVIDIA proprietary drivers since 7 years ago, I even experimented with various drivers to make wine games to work and never had issues. But maybe *ubuntu gets better testing and support from NVIDIA then other distribution,