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As soon as you are out of what they care about, your support will become abysmal. And they don't care about modern desktop use case (such as they didn't have Wayland support for decades).

So if you are a Linux user - simply avoid Nvidia. They don't care about you.



Nvidia's Linux compute solution is far better than AMD's compute solution, and their Linux graphics solution is far worse than AMD (and Intel)'s graphics solution. So the recommendation comes down to why you want that GPU.


Their compute solution is still lock-in, so that being better is even more moot than their general "good" Linux support.


You're looking at this from the perspective of a hobbyist, not a business who needs to get stuff done.

For workloads like training AI models, you would be shooting your business in the foot by using AMD.


> Wayland support for decades

It's only 15 years old!


And Nvidia did nothing to support until like a just a few years ago and even now their support is basically half cooked.

If it takes them that long, it's very clear they don't care about Linux in general. Same thing is reflected in them not working with upstream kernel.




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