We've used several NVidia cards over the years -
mostly in Thinkpad
laptops. I wish they the drivers were FLOSS but we've never had a
problem with them.
I have to second in on this. Over the past fifteen years
I've only been using nVidia cards. I
learned my lesson after I bought an ATI Radeon and ended up selling it soon afterwards
because
the Linux drivers just weren't working (*). Until now I had a total of six different
nVidia
cards: three mobile ones in laptops and three in desktop PCs. With nVidia's
proprietary drivers
these cards Just Work under Linux and deliver high performance comparable with Windows.
The
amount of problems these drivers cause is really minimal compared to other system
components like
sound or WiFi, at least from my experience.
(*) AMD suposedly cares now for Linux more than ATI did back in the days and it releases
open
source drivers. A friend of mine got a Navi 5700 soon after it was released. He spent
first weeks
not being able to use the card at all since there were no drivers. After a while AMD
delivered
kernel and Mesa updates that allowed booting into the desktop but still no way to take
advantage
of card's full performance. In the end my friend ended up selling the card after
several months.
Janek
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