Originally posted by spykes
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Unlike many, my experiences with Nvidia have been mostly positive. I realise they don't play nice with the open source community but they provide solid support (for things they decide they want to provide support for). If there's a problem and they fix it, I just install a newer driver and that's that.
Unlike AMD, where I have to upgrade half the system and hope a newer kernel and/or mesa and whatever else is the one that'll work. I have an AMD-based machine from 7 years ago that's still unusable in Linux because of constant GPU crashes. And just last week I got a lappy with a Ryzen 3500U, installed Mint 19.3 on it only to get almost 100% reproducible hangs on logouts and shutdowns. The Ryzen came out at the start of 2019, kernel 5.3 came out in September and still the support wasn't there. I had to manually install 5.6 and for now it looks fixed. Anyway, that's AMD for you.
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