NVIDIA drivers are not as bad as they used to be, but it's a proprietary driver so you're dependent on NVIDIA, who doesn't care that much about Linux gamers (probably 0.1% of their bottom line).

I have a NVIDIA card I bought because I did not know better (and I used to run Windows). I'm lucky that it works fine on Ubuntu 18.04 (I can play games like the 2016 Doom fine) but if I had a choice I'd pick an AMD GPU.