Describing kernel panics and general nightmare scenarios as the general course with Nvidia doesn’t make sense either.
Nvidia has 80% market share of the discrete GPU desktop market and at least 90% market share of cloud/datacenter.
Nvidia GPUs are used almost exclusively for every cloud powered AI service and to train virtually every ML model in existence. Almost always on Linux.
Do you really think any of this would be possible if what you are describing was anything approaching the typical experience starting at the /driver/ level?
Nvidia would have never achieved their market dominance nor held on to it this long if the issues you’ve experienced impacted anything approaching a statistically significant number of users or applications.
Nvidia gets a lot of hate on HN and elsewhere (much of it fair) but I will never understand the people who claim it doesn’t work and get the job done (often very well).
