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Assuming you're talking about Nouveau, it's pretty hit or miss depending on what card you have. My previous laptop had an MX330 and it couldn't do hardware acceleration stuff and 120Hz via HDMI, not to mention screen sharing on Wayland was wonky.

Oh, and it's worth to mention that "their" open source driver had nothing to do with Nvidia themselves; they absolute do not care, as opposed to AMD.

The narrative around Nvidia seems to have done a complete 180 in the last year or two. I'm skeptical that it's as good as many are stating.

Are these OSS drivers maintained by Nvidia? Or is it Nouveau?

Yes, and with the addition of NVK it's gotten a lot better. There is still some issues on Wayland and specific problem cards, but it's not nearly as bad as it was even 2y ago.

I tried it for 2 years. After having a lot of weird issues I finally upgraded to an AMD card and so many of those issues went away. Firstly I can install updates without worrying about breaking games or random graphical things. AMD has been way more solid.

AMD is way better than NVIDIA

Maybe it’s a Wayland joke?

Yes, IMO. If you haven't bought the hardware yet, there's no reason to subject yourself to the headache of lacking Linux support, instead support companies that value open source.
AMD and Intel GPU's simply work out of the box with all features.

And it's not like on a laptop you need the highest of high end graphics acceleration anyway.

If you actually have a choice stay away from Nvidia although it's been a hot minute since I last saw a laptop with an amd gpu.

Yes.

I own an Omen 15 inch with 3060. It has some issues but it works fine. However, my next one will definitely be AMD.

One major issue is that I have to use my desktop manager (mutter, for Gnome on Fedora) with the Nvidia drivers, not the integrated GPU of AMD, otherwise external monitors do not work at all. This is a problem because dedicated GPU cannot go to sleep amd constantly uses at least 15 watts, reducing the battery life.

Another issue is, a lot of times, my laptop won't wake up after sleeping. I have checked the logs, and I am 90% sure that it is because I login to my desktop manager using dedicated GPU. If you don't need an external monitor, or if you have a dedicated mux switch, you should not have to face any of these problems.

A few minor problems are that I cannot use the official builds with Nvidia drivers, if I want to use secure boot. For secure boot, I have to rely on third party developers for this. An issue I saw sometime ago was, when I used Manjaro, my maximum TDP of the GPU never exceeded 79 watts. When using Fedora, ot goes up to 95 watts. On Windows it used to go upto 100 watts. Also, there are some softwares like keyboard lighting manager, bios updater etc, which work on Windows only, not even on a VM. Also, the fans never exceed 4099 RPM on Linux, whereas on Windows they could go upto 6500. But I have always seen Linux to be 10-20% faster in my Blender render tests.

I hope this helps. If you have any questions, feel free to DM.

If possible get a laptop with a thunderbolt 3 port and a compatable external gpu

I've got a laptop with nvidia graphics and I've never had a problem.

Most of the serious problems have to do with Wayland, so xfce will be fine. I'm running it on a t480 with a geforce mx150 just fine.

If it's a good deal, take it. Even if you do decide to switch ot Wayland at some point, those issues should be mostly fixed soon™

what happens when you have the money to write software for your hardware and not give back to open source because $$$.