&gt; Linux would be hurt more by nVidia&#x27;s absence than nVidia would be hurt by Linux&#x27;s absence.<p>Maybe for the desktop, but not overall: Nvidia is heavily pushing supercomputing&#x2F;machine learning and it can&#x27;t afford to ignore Linux in this space (since Linux dominates).<p>If Nvidia were to abandon Linux, they would be gifting AMD a free come-back opportunity.