Yeah, the nvidia driver support on Linux was so bad that I rage quit Linux and bought a Spanish windows 8 (I was in Latin America at the time) at a ridiculous price after days of troubleshooting a black screen on boot.

AMD had been rock solid for me with Linux ever since I realized that was the issue and bought an AMD card. I'll never go back to nvidia until they make Linux drivers a priority.

I still have the Spanish windows that I use for games with my very old nvidia graphics card. It's time to retire that system soon.