I'll grant you, 18 years ago, Nvidia's drivers were superior by virtue of existing at all. That's a long time ago. The competition has improved, and the Nvidi

I'll grant you, 18 years ago, Nvidia's drivers were superior by virtue of existing at all. That's a long time ago. The competition has improved, and the Nvidia experience has steadily gotten worse. I have a desktop machine at work that locks up hard with the proprietary driver, and another one where X randomly crashes if you use nouveau. Any goodwill they had with me for providing proprietary drivers on Linux over a decade ago has long since evaporated. Their hardware may benchmark well, but in my experience it's unstable and I suspect they're papering over a poor design with opaque drivers.