nvidia drivers suck both ways. the proprietary ones "work" but suffer from random issues and instability, and nouveau's performance is unworkable for games (fair enough, it's a reverse-engineered driver). amd cards are the way to go, work perfectly out-of-the-box on linux's built-in FOSS driver

gotta give the coders at Valve credit though, proton has come so far it's incredible how well games run through it