I understand why Nvidia gets a lot of heat from the Linux community regarding the closed source nature of their GPU drivers. That said, I use them on all of my Linux machines and not being a FOSS purist I don't take issue with it. Additionally, most of the complaints come from the Linux desktop community. You rarely see the ML community at large expressing any concern. For the most part they're just trying to get work done and the overall CUDA ecosystem is tremendously useful in that regard.

Very usable desktop experience, CUDA just works, the rest of the software ecosystem makes anything else pale by comparison (see the Pytorch ROCm discussion that made the HN front page today). Every few months I take another look at ROCm and frankly don't understand how anyone can take it seriously.

In the FOSS/Linux community the discussion around the closed source nature of desktop drivers seriously discounts the amount of FOSS work Nvidia has done.