I find Nvidia has a great out of box experience too, or as close to out of box that it can be when you run Gentoo like I do. Gentoo needs to have the drivers added to it. This applies to both AMD and Nvidia equally, since a basic Gentoo install has no graphics support.
Anyway, Valve has improved the AMD community driver on Linux, but I have yet to hear any news on RADV being able to recover from GPU hangs. Nvidia’s driver can. The last I looked a few years ago, the security guys were begging the AMD driver developers to look at static analyzer reports. Meanwhile, the open source driver that Nvidia released shows that Nvidia uses static analyzers given that it has preprocessor directives from Coverity. I really would not regard AMD as being at Nvidia’s level yet on Linux, even if it is coming close.
Anyway, Valve has improved the AMD community driver on Linux, but I have yet to hear any news on RADV being able to recover from GPU hangs. Nvidia’s driver can. The last I looked a few years ago, the security guys were begging the AMD driver developers to look at static analyzer reports. Meanwhile, the open source driver that Nvidia released shows that Nvidia uses static analyzers given that it has preprocessor directives from Coverity. I really would not regard AMD as being at Nvidia’s level yet on Linux, even if it is coming close.