From this experience I’ve learn that: Unless they open-sourced their drivers completely, I probably won’t be purchasing another NVIDIA.
Linux makes up for its small market size by using open source development to ensure security and stability. A business like NVIDIA can clearly afford to lose customers like us and still have stocks go to the moon, so I’m not going to take the risk again and buy an NVIDIA product that doesn’t sit (or want to be) part of the open source space.