The initial sentiment in hacker news and reddit threads was overwhelmingly positive for nividia and against miners.

Now that some time has passed and Linus (from LTT) has released his video I'd say the sentiment is still mixed. I'm still seeing many tweets praising nividia for finally taking a step for gamers.

Here's an austrilian tech Youtuber who should know better: https://youtu.be/jnoNryem-G8