I feel like Linux experience got split into two fragments of reality, as I was an ATI hardcore fan right up until they got bought by AMD and AMD decided 'fuck Linux' and the drivers were so bad for years, I finally switched to Intel/NVIDIA and I've not had a problem aside from an occasional build issue which took a few moments to fix.

I have no love for any of these companies now, but I just haven't had reason to make an architecture jump and its so much easier to just stick with what you know.

Fortunately I did my last upgrade cycle in 2023 so I just missed all this pricing and AI bullshit, so I should be able to wait for another 10 years before upgrading as I usually do. We'll see where things lie at that point.