A lot of the info here reads as outdated to me, I have a 40 series card and on bazzite with open drivers it works with zero issues on major titles like Cyberpunk, Horizon, etc. The open drivers have come a long way. It took maybe 5 months post 40 series release for it to work 100% with no glaring issues for me, but 40 series was also the first cards to be launched with the open drivers so it makes sense there’d be hiccups

The only issues I’ve had on Wayland are color related.

No real issues if you’re using X. Some troubles with Wayland, I’ve heard, but haven’t been able to test it personally. You might need to install the proprietary drivers if you want to play games, but that’s easy enough to do.

Just use the newest driver and you’ll be completely fine. Even with very recent hardware, everything works as expected for me.

People like to shit on Nvidia, which is deserved for their business practices and relationship with Linux in the past, however most who claim that there are issues clearly haven’t used an Nvidia GPU under Linux in a long time.

It just works.

Running RTX4050 mobile on Fedora 41 (internet too crappy to upgrade to 42)

Works great!

Except for unreal 5 games but idk if that’s a driver or a proton issue :/

I had a 3060 Ti.

I couldn’t game on Wayland for about 20% of my games (very frustrating), couldn’t use specific Window Managers like Sway, experience constant screen tearing on X11 (which I often had to use, because the game would crash on Wayland) when gaming, and had a significant performance hit in some games.

CS:GO ran like a dream and actually better than on Windows, but with the release of CS2 my performance on Linux was about 20% worse than on Windows. My 1% lows were also crazy on Linux (median=190fps, %1=80fps). This meant, among others things, that I just couldn’t play death match anymore — my FPS would make it unplayable. This was largely an optimization issue and I think some of the 2025 Nvidia driver updates of improved the situation a little for CS2 specifically. The screen tearing on X and the buggyness on Wayland were enough for me to switch though, even if eventual improvements might come.

I am now extremely happy with my 7900 XT, which I got for less than any available 9070 XT (in my region) and which amusingly actually has better performance in CS2 then then the 9070 XT on Linux. It’s massively overkill though, I could have just as well gotten a 7800 XT or 9070 (non-XT).

I am still very, very pleased. Hopefully this will last me a few years, unlike the gosh darn 3060 Ti.

Alright, I’m done with my huge block of text. Hopefully this was helpful.

I have used both AMD and Nvidia cards on Linux for a long time and with Nvidia it’s mostly fine now days, but their driver situation tends to be fine until the rare time that it isn’t. I switched back to AMD last year due to the occasional driver issue that left me dead in the water. And by occasional I mean like once every year or so, not something common. It is entirely possible that you’ll never have much of an issue, but I started to take note of my Nvidia driver versions and and especially noted when GPU drivers were updated so that I had some notion of where to try to roll back to if I ran into issues. I haven’t had any issues like that with my AMD cards for a long, long time in Linux (with Windows obvious the situation was more of the reverse of this).

As long as the graphics isn’t that hybrid Nvidia Optimus or whatever the hell they call it, you’re good. That hybrid shit was a nightmare to get working, and it never worked right either.

When I used Fedora for a while with my 2070 I had literally no problems at all 🤷🏻‍♀️

for me? stuttering and freezes on wayland, its kind of hit and miss sometimes. more like missing my amd gpu.

For gaming on Linux, use latest release (e.g. v575) of Nvidia driver. And for everything else stick to production release (e.g. v570).

Certain videos won’t play in any media player. Also occasional graphical glitches in Plasma for me. No issues with games oddly enough.

Edit: I’m using Arch but I’d expect these issues to be distro-agnostic. Though I’m fine with being wrong.

I had to switch back to Windows for now since game performance was noticeably worse with my Nvidia card on Fedora vs Windows. Something running at around 130-144fps cutting down to 80-9fos as an example. So be prepared for that. From what I gather it’s unique to Nvidia.

It should work. The only practical issues are:

• Usually, you will have to manually install the proprietary drivers (I think Fedora makes this relatively easy)
• Wayland (the protocol most desktop environmentss use nowadays) support may be hit-and-miss at times (it will mostly work but it’s not as polished as with Intel/AMD), and Proton (the thing that lets you play Windows games) may not play well either.

The ideological issue (which you probably don’t care about) is that it pretty much requires proprietary (non-FOSS) drivers which run in kernel space and so in theory have complete access to all data on your computer (but then so does Intel ME). This is the main reason I personally will never use NVidia cards.

The only problem i see its not in their repos, and you have to add the non foss repo manually and its third party.

Might want to try no bars which is basically fedora but it installs proprietary gpu drivers on first boot