[anonbanker]

Unless you're using Wayland on NVidia chipsets, graphics driver support is pretty damn good nowadays. I was able to install NVidia and ATI proprietary drivers during my graphical linux install of Calculate (Gentoo) linux. I'd be shocked if Ubuntu or Fedora were somehow more obtuse than this.

As for free drivers, the only one lagging behind is Nouveau for Nvidia users. AMD's free/open driver has made some serious performance improvements in the past few months, and Intel's driver (or just plain modesetting) has performance parity with their windows driver.

I remember 2008, and fighting with AMD/ATI drivers, and occasional reboots on my NVidia systems that led to X not working anymore. I've had exactly one instance of that in the past 4 years (under Arch). Can we stop spreading 2008-era misinformation in 2016?