Switched to Linux from Windows this year and Nvidia has taken the largest share of hardware troubleshooting. I’m open to ditching Nvidia for my next pc build.

Is there a GPU brand that is more Linux friendly or is this just a manufacturer wide problem given the amount of different Linux distros and smaller market?

Same. They were easier to avoid when you could see the downvote warning, but yeah thanks so much for solving this self created problem YouTube.