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Nvidia is a bit of a risk under Linux. It might work.
There’s hardly any risk anymore. The drivers themselves are mostly fine, with a couple exceptions.
The only two risk factors are either using an immature distro with no properly packaged drivers, or an outdated one
Yep, for example Ubuntu took like 4 extra months to get a late enough driver to fix the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth texture issue. Completely unplayable until I believe driver 570.123. I had the updated driver pretty early on Arch, but wouldn't ever suggest that to someone casually considering switching.
Mint won't properly display games with my RTX 3080 unless I reboot for some reason. There can still be issues but they might be fixable.
When it's not displaying them properly, what does it do?
The game runs fine but there's a black screen. I might get a few frames actually rendered once every minute or so before it goes back to black. It usually only happens after I let the screensaver go on after each reboot.
Is your computer going to sleep as well or just screensaver? I've ran into a similar issue on both AMD and Nvidia because the power management on each has caused me problems. I basically turned off the auto sleep to give myself a bandage fix to it. My PC runs pretty cool on idle though, so that's not too horrible.
Screensaver. Ran a test to confirm it by letting the screen go dark before it went to sleep. Turning off auto sleep didn't do anything, the PC would just switch to screensaver and go to sleep like nothing changed.