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Let me be the Linux evangelist here and say: consider AMD for GPU, they aren't bad.
https://www.logicalincrements.com/articles/graphicscardcomparison
Not OP, but as a person who wants to switch to Linux but is worried about being able to play the games I like (and doesn't generally use Steam), is Nvidia bad for Linux gaming? I've heard good things about AMD's Linux compatibility but I have an Nvidia.
Linux fanboys like to hate on Nvidia, but their GPU's usually work fine on day one and have performance parity with other OS.
What isn't good is that they don't support some newer features that work on the open-source drivers from AMD and Intel, namely Wayland. But even that's constantly getting better and won't be a problem for long.
Also, the proprietary drivers made some problems a few years ago that resulted in a black screen after the update. But as I said, that's been years ago and was simple to fix.
Now I've talked about those Linux fanboys like myself and do recommend AMD GPU's over Nvidia. It's great that they work ootb without having to install drivers, but that's only for gaming. E.g. machine learning apps like stable diffusion make the AMD driver situation way worse than Nvidia.
Don't let yourself be discouraged by overly dramatic comments! Try it for yourself and it'll probably be fine.
Agree, most mainstream distros have it all handled for the most part and it normally "just works".
Now, myself on Gentoo testing on the other hand... Sometimes I shoot myself in the foot and forget to rebuild my kernel modules and wind up needing to chroot to fix things - all because I have an NVidia card.