Intel drivers:

I’ve learned it best to use nvidia drivers with nvidia cards and the AMD drivers with the AMD cards. I recommend this for performance.

I think it's more of a

Open drivers vs proprietary drivers

That's the thing with AMD drivers, they're the damn near perfect software. Doing lots of stuff yet you'd never know it's there. It stays nicely out of the user's way, you don't even have to think about installing them and shit just works

Then there are the Nvidia drivers

15 years ago this was true lol

When you want to do GPU processing for AI, crypto, video editing, etc, though, this gets reversed.

Getting Cuda working on Linux with an nvidia card is relatively painless. Just a few well-documented commands, worked on the first try.

I could never get AMD's equivalent to work on Linux, though, and it led me down a horrible rabbit-hole of trying a dozen different driver versions from a dozen different places, all with their own unique and quirky ways of installing... And it still never did work.

i wish i could go to an amd card but i just upgraded my video card (geforce rtx 4060 ti) like 3 months before i decided to move to linux :(

Never had an issue with my Nvidia card. OBS can use the hardware encoder out of the box. Just a few weeks ago upgraded to a AMD card and had to set some "advanced" settings in OBS to do the same. Really happy overall, but after seeing this meme for years I expected rainbows and sunshine but was unpleasantly surprised in that regard.

I'm running wayland with nvidia-open and nvidia-utils packages, and have never encountered any driver issues in both graphics and compute.

AMD should make drivers for nVidia hardware. 🤷‍♂️

Intel be like that skeleton at the bottom underwater

In LMDE4, 5 and 6, I pretty much had to install the OEM NVIDIA driver because the open source Nouveau driver didn't quite cut it, but for AMD, the stock driver that comes with LMDE7 has worked fine for my purposes so far.

I may change my tune if I try to run a more modern game*, but that will likely put me back in Frankendebian territory which caused me problems under LMDE6. (As you might surmise, I upgraded to new hardware and tried to do things as I'd always done them when LMDE6 was current.)

* Minecraft notwithstanding, because it both is and isn't modern. That can get above 1000 FPS if I don't limit it.

On one hand, setting up complicated stuff is a challenge and also fun.

On the other hand, I don't wanna pay a company doing propreitery stuff.

On the other feet, prices are increasing due to chatbot girlfriend arms race between richest dudes on earth; are GPUs really even worth it anymore?

nvidia drivers are all dependant on who is implementing them

I only ever have problems if the kernel is updated without the drivers, because I somehow updated before the video driver was included

this is my experience for over 10 years now on Arch

this has not been my experience with AMD drivers…

So which one is better?

Well, can't say for everybody, but i have no trouble running nvidia gpu on Hyprland with nvidia-open drivers. Haven't spotted any troubles with Plasma or MangoWC either, even though i haven't used them for as long.

A decade ago it used to be opposite. How far Nvidia has fallen.

It used to be this way and was one of my biggest complaints. It's no longer this way. Drivers for my Nvidia card works fine on my mint and arch setup.