All you really have to do is make sure the distribution of Linux you’re installing supports Nvidia out of the box. Their drivers are not that bad anymore, they used to be much worse.
Just not true. We got a reconditioned laptop with a “NVidia upgrade for free” when we order Intel for a reason. My advise was to return it. This was ignored. Regardless of open or closed, Wayland or XOrg, graphics doesn’t work flawlessly. It’s a case of choose your bugs. The least bugs is XOrg and closed, but it’s still not prefect (artifacts with window shadows sometimes). Switch to vtty and back a few times and it will poo itself. Slowly.
For nearer the edge distros, like Debian Testing, NVidia is pretty much guaranteed to break completely.
Closed drivers just don’t work in a open system. They just don’t keep up.
All you really have to do is make sure the distribution of Linux you’re installing supports Nvidia out of the box. Their drivers are not that bad anymore, they used to be much worse.
Just not true. We got a reconditioned laptop with a “NVidia upgrade for free” when we order Intel for a reason. My advise was to return it. This was ignored. Regardless of open or closed, Wayland or XOrg, graphics doesn’t work flawlessly. It’s a case of choose your bugs. The least bugs is XOrg and closed, but it’s still not prefect (artifacts with window shadows sometimes). Switch to vtty and back a few times and it will poo itself. Slowly.
For nearer the edge distros, like Debian Testing, NVidia is pretty much guaranteed to break completely.
Closed drivers just don’t work in a open system. They just don’t keep up.