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>>Bender+(OP)
If Valve has a polished SteamOS distribution for general hardware by the time Windows 10 goes EOL that would be very, very awesome. It would need to be as good of an experience regardless of your video card choice, but I'd for sure opt to install it over Windows 11 in that case.

It's not perfect but it's pretty good and I only use my desktop as a small media server and for games anyway.

>>lucasy+9p
Hopefully Nvidia will have got their shit together by then.

Despite them releasing a "open source" driver, Nvidia not actually working properly still seems to be the number one complaint that I see on Linux.

>>happym+0q
I guess I'll just chime in with my experience:

I chose nvidia when I made the switch to linux probably 8 years ago. At the time AMD had not yet started their open source driver efforts. I haven't had any major complaints besides updates once giving a black screen. During most of that time AMD drivers were making a lot of changes that I didn't want to deal with. I believe they are a good choice now but they certainly did not seem to be then.

As far as steam, I've been using it happily on mint the entire time. It has had a big picture mode for some time. I'm a little baffled by people who seem to be waiting for a steamOS general release to make the switch.

>>yomlic+BY
I've been using Steam longer than HoloISO and I also used Nvidia 15+ years ago but I much prefer the updated interface, and Valve have no time to code around Nvidia's bullshit so the there are hard crashes.

I switched to AMD after the RX480 and haven't looked back. That was 8 years ago, so there hasn't been a good reason to use NVIDIA for a long time.

It's fine if you want to use Mint, but it doesn't make Nvidia a good person here.