Nvidia and intel on linux for near on 20 years now, and also agree - generally the ATI/AMD experience was markedly worse.

Currently dual 3090s in this box and nvidia is still as simple as just installing the distro package.

There was a period in the mid 2010s where trying to get better battery life on laptops by optionally using the discrete gpu vs the integrated was a real pain (bumblebee/optirun were not so solid), but generally speaking for desktop machines that need GPU support... Nvidia was the route.

Don't love their company politics so much, although I think they're finally getting on board now that so many companies want to run GPU accelerated workloads on linux hosts for LLMs.

But ATI sucked. They seem to have finally gotten there, but they were absolutely not the best choice for a long time.

Hell - I still have a machine in my basement running a GTX970 from 2015, and it also works fine on modern linux. It currently does the gpu accel for whisper speech to text for HA.