Most NVidia cards work well. Nobody will recommend them because NVidia is known to pull the rug out of your perfectly working card all the time, and being completely aggressive against people trying to make the cards work without by their own.

I have a 3090 ti without any issues

I have a 2080 and an Intel CPU – Linux Mint worked perfectly out of the box.

it works like a charm with my rtx2060 and the new rtx2080

there's several distros with a focus on gaming like steamos and bazzite. I personally use cachyos as it worked right out of the box without installing any drivers.

Linux runs nvidia fine. It can run most games without a problem. Whether or not it can run a game that’s heavily gatekept is another matter altogether.

I’m running a 3060 with CachyOS and no issues. Mint however gave me some problems. Fixable problems, but problems still. CachyOS worked straight out of the box.

I'm now 4 laptops deep in installing Bazzite. Tldr: anything with Nvidia open drivers will work r/n. In practice, anything above a 1060 is supported no issues.

Anything below and you'll have an issue with the display engine Wayland. You can make the old drivers work but only under X11. Gaming on an old silly laptop with GeForce Nvm 5200 is totally doable. Will run unreal engine games like Bioshock or portal. But requires manually setting everything up in Arch.

Just make a live boot drive and try it out! Maybe get a little partition setup. I’ve been running Kubuntu for 3 weeks just fine! I am tech savvy though, but most of the things I needed to be savvy at were only because my PC is also my media server. It was less than 1.5 hours to set up gaming and all my window management options and whatnot. And now everything just works.

AMD is much more reliable and has improved for decades. Nvidia has their proprietary driver and new open source driver. Both work ok, but definitely less good than AMD.

It works fine for both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. There’s a slight performance loss on Nvidia cards but not enough that you will ever notice.

I’ve been using Fedora with my RTX 3090 and it works great. I haven’t tried the newer cards, but the 30 series seem to work well in my experience.

I have 1065 Ti without any issues. The "nvidia not compatible" sentiment is outdated and they started playing ball recently by working on open source drivers. Nvidia is huge in the AI space and AI computing is pretty much 100% Linux.

There are gaming issues though on Linux in the form of anti-cheat systems, but other than that running things with Steam Proton just works although specific games that use obscure windows APIs might not be as performant.

Dirt 3 used the NTsynch for the NTFS filesystem and once it got fixed the frame rate saw a massive jump for example.

Long term people are supporting Linux gaming a lot more since it's already 3% of the playerbase and requires pretty minimal effort for added 3% audience to make Steam Proton play work. Also with the release of the Steam Machine 2026 is going to be the Year of the Linux Desktop™

Just a heads up, running Linux on Apple’s proprietary hardware can get a little complicated. If this is your first foray into Linux, I recommend using a standard PC laptop.