No one is advocating people getting a new NVIDIA card, did you misread my post? I'm claiming that already having NVIDIA isn't a deterrent for a Linux swap. It really isn't.

Let's be honest, 15% of a performance cost IS working fine. It's not flawless, but it's still fine.

Secure boot, apparmor and all that stuff isn't something to consider because anyone that invested in computers already has enough information that these discussions are moot. Let me repeat, I already made clear that I wouldn't consider NVIDIA for a new Linux card.

About the artifacts and stuff, again, old stuff. For context, I've been playing Path of Exile 1&2, Grim Dawn, Spiderman 2 recently, MHRise, MHWilds (which was bullshit on both cards, on windows too), cyberpunk on the dlc release, and a bunch of pixel art games that aren't worth mentioning since they could run on a toaster.

I've been playing games without caring for either and it again works fine. I run endeavourOS (arch) and update once a month-ish, some days before a game release. Just as I did with drivers in windows, it's not such a big deal ffs. That perfect environment and right distro stuff is such an overblown thing, just get whatever and install the latest stuff, it will work fine unless the game dev is intentionally stupid nowadays.

Finally, the drivers being closed source is again moot because for a Windows->Linux transition, they aren't really getting anything worse in terms of audits.

Maybe you missed the "I'd never buy a new NVIDIA card" thing and missed that the implication of my point was a windows to Linux transition? Idk, your response is very technically oriented.