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For some historical context, Nvidia has had premium Linux support since 2006. For the longest time it was the only option for any kind of hardware accelerated 3D graphics on Linux and it generally worked pretty well.
Thankfully, AMD made the open-source side of graphics on Linux work also recently. At least for two years, AMD has been entirely trouble-free on Linux. To my knowledge, Nouveau is not quite there yet.