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I'm with you, I know we've had a lot of recent Linux converts, but I don't get why so many who've used Linux for years still buy Nvidia.
Like yeah, there's going to be some cool stuff, but it's going to be clunky and temporary.
When people switch to Linux they don’t do a lot of research beforehand. I, for one, didn’t know that Nvidia doesn’t work well with it until I had been using it for years.
It's a good way for people to learn about fully hostile companies to the linux ecosystem.
Similar for me. All the talk about what software Linux couldn't handle, I didn't learn that Linux hates Nvidia until AFTER I updated my GPU. I don't want to buy another GPU after less than a year, but Windows makes me want to do a sodoku in protest, but also my work and design software wont run properly on Linux and all anybody can talk about is browsers and games.
I'm damned whether I switch or not.
got that backwards
To be fair, Nvidia supports their newer GPUs well enough, so you may not have any problems for a while. But once they decide to end support for a product line, it's basically a death sentence for that hardware. That's what happened to me recently with the 470 driver. Older GPU worked fine until a kernel update broke the driver. There's nobody fixing it anymore, and they won't open-source even obsolete drivers.
People buy Nvidia for different reasons, but not everyone faces any issues with it in Linux, and so they see no reason to change what they're already familiar with.