David; yes, however this is a generic issue. When ever a new kernel comes out, there is a chance it's going to break third party drivers. The generic danger is that the manufacturer concerned won't maintain the drivers they have, meaning you will be stuck on a particular kernel version. With NVidia in particular, they were one of the first companies to explicitly support Linux and to produce native Linux drivers for their graphics cards, and in that context I have a lot of respect for NVidia as a company. Whereas there is always a chance that in the future they might not continue to produce new drivers, the open source Nvidia driver supplied with the Linux Kernel does work Ok and in recent years has become pretty good - it's just not "as" good as the NVidia driver. So whereas I might be wary of expensive gaming cards (in general), I don't think there is any significant risk re; drivers when it comes to deploying low-end NVidia kit.
Zorba61; I have a new Ryzen, but I have a CPU (and motherboard) without the integrated VEGA feature. From memory I looked at this and worked out the chip with a motherboard that presents a HDMI was more expensive than the add-in board, and I could find nothing to show it would support dual monitors .. which is a requirement for me. In terms of ease of use, if you just want a "something" in terms of display and aren't too worried about the specification, an integrated solution is probably a lot easier to work with ..
