Honestly, your machine will probably work. Linux supports a lot of hardware. Nowadays it's rare to find any that doesn't work. > You bought an expensive nVid

Honestly, your machine will probably work. Linux supports a lot of hardware. Nowadays it's rare to find any that doesn't work. > You bought an expensive nVidia card. Yeah, throw it away Nvidia works fine (it has to, lots of ML shit on GPUs is done on Linux), you just need proprietary drivers. If anything their support on Linux is probably better than AMD's. Why? Just make an Ubuntu startup stick and try it without installing... Nothing lost except maybe 10 minutes of your time.