The reason why proprietary drivers like Nvidia are historically not installed by default I think is because they have their own license conditions.
In practice the real problem here seems to be the bugginess of the open source nouveau driver you will get instead. It's been causing pain for us for years and I would tend to think we should partially disable it. Maybe just disable the acceleration part (mesa) and not the KMS part (kernel).
I completely agree, it's a bad user experience.
The reason why proprietary drivers like Nvidia are historically not installed by default I think is because they have their own license conditions.
In practice the real problem here seems to be the bugginess of the open source nouveau driver you will get instead. It's been causing pain for us for years and I would tend to think we should partially disable it. Maybe just disable the acceleration part (mesa) and not the KMS part (kernel).