The thing is if you don’t need graphic output they are rock solid. I can understand how someone who might use them primarily in headless servers would say the drivers are great.

Graphics output is largely issue free on Nvidia too.

this has never been the case for me, and evidently for the vast majority of others as well.

Those who have had or perceived issues tend to be the loudest.

I have had a good experience with Nvidia and when there is an issue, I report it and Nvidia fixes it within months. The only time I have seen a better turn around was Intel graphics, where they fixed things within 24 hours after I pointed out a bug in their kernel driver. AMD graphics on the other hand seems unresponsive to community reports or outright refuses to handle issues.

For example, they refused to implement VK_EXT_fragment_shader_interlock in AMDVLK despite implementing the equivalent for D3D12 on Windows:

https://github.com/GPUOpen-Drivers/AMDVLK/issues/108

The damage in that case is limited to Windows, as the community driver for Linux implemented it, but it made cross platform support in emulators more difficult. If it were not for Valve working on the community driver, the Linux experience on AMD graphics would be no where near how good it is on Nvidia graphics.

I am running Wayland on a 3090 Ti and there are zero tearing issues in KDE plasma 6.2.

I do not know what you mean by “issues with newer hardware”. It has always worked just as well on Linux as it worked on Windows as far as I know.

The 3090Ti, while still an excellent card is hardly "newer hardware" at this point in 2025.

That is irrelevant considering the quote was “those cards frequently have issues with newer hardware”. I was asking what this referenced newer hardware is.