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.

Pretty much no issues at this point. In fact, in some ways I feel NVIDIA has done better than AMD recently.

None? Lol. However i have a 1080 and Wayland has memory leaks. I think related somehow cuz the amd boxes are fine and newer nvidia too.

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 :/

You can expect your computer to function properly.

Might want to try Nobara which is basically fedora but it installs proprietary gpu drivers on first boot

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).

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.

If you’re gaming DX12 has really ass issues. It’s a bit annoying to setup for wayland too, but otherwise works fine!

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.

I have been using Endevour os with Wayland KDE for quite a while now with few issues. I bet you would be fine.

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.

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

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

I had some weird issues with my 3080 Ti on Fedora 41 and 42 and have recently switched to a 9070 XT.

Most games ran fine, but other programs acted strange while games were open. Space Engineers, Escape from Tarkov, and a couple other titles wouldn’t allow me to use other programs. The cursor would stay the same as in-game, even when alt-tabbed, and the Discord UI would become unresponsive.

I had several strange issues with my monitor flickering that didn’t resolve until I uninstalled and reinstalled my drivers.

I had a horrible issue with Minecraft and other OpenGL games that caused a strobing white screen while playing. I forgot how I resolved that one.

I had to reinstall drivers several times. I don’t know how much of it was self-inflicted or just how it goes on Linux.

None of these issues have come up while on my 9070 XT.