There are many words to describe my experience with Nvidia on Linux, but "just works" isn't one of them. For modern cards it usually mostly works most of the time, but getting basic features such as "decode H.264 on the GPU" working still requires unofficial third-party wrappers.
On Windows you may be right, I haven't had to deal with Windows drivers for a few years now.
On Windows you may be right, I haven't had to deal with Windows drivers for a few years now.