Nvidia proprietary drivers work OK for me, mostly (I needed to spoof the video card ID so KVM could lie to the Windows drivers in my home VFIO setup, but it wasn't hard.)

But it means I can't use Wayland. Wayland isn't critical for me, but since NVidia is refusing to implement GBM and using EGLStream instead, there's nothing I can do about it. It simply isn't worth NVidia's time to make Wayland work, so I'm stuck using X. If the driver were open-source someone would have submitted a GBM patch and i wouldn't be stuck in this predicament.

I can't wait for NVidia to have real competition in the ML space so I can ditch them.