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Had this issue with System76, which offers NVIDIA cards that suck on Linux, and various hardware that requires firmware not in the linux kernel or anywhere else

Had this issue with System76, which offers NVIDIA cards that suck on Linux, and various hardware that requires firmware not in the linux kernel or anywhere else, where you have to install and update that firmware separately (like windows). All they make are Linux computers and they couldn't/didn't/wouldn't for some reason produce a laptop that just natively worked.

Accacin 4y ago
Recently I built a new PC, and after having Nvidia driver issues for years on my old PC, I decided I'd go AMD instead. After at least 10 years using Linux, I'm back to Windows. The main issue I had was a very intermittent flicker on my screen when I'm on 144Hz. This happened on Wayland and X11. Almost every single distribution had this issue; OpenSUSE, Fedora, Arch (and derivatives), Debian, PopOS. The only distribution where this wasn't a problem was Ubuntu which worked great for a while, but I updated and had a few issues. Also, realised after briefly trying other distributions that Snaps were really slow, so I just couldn't stay with Ubuntu. I tried disabling Snaps, but then the store broke and the non-snap store kept crashing (I generally install software via terminal but it's nice to browse and see what's out there occasionally). Oddly, I've found Windows 11 mostly okay - at least I have no flicker at 144Hz.