Nvidia and Fedora current state

[Michael Schwendt]

What's the current state of Fedora with regard to Nvidia graphics hardware?
Should it just work?

On a machine with GeForce GTX 1060, Fedora 28 suffers badly from freezes and
slowdowns during boot, unbearable slow mouse movement on the GDM login
screen, then more freezes before GNOME Shell appears but isn't really
usable because everything is slow as a snail. Switching the login settings
from Wayland to Xorg at least results in a usable GNOME Shell. Installing
the Nvidia driver packages from rpmfusion hasn't made a difference.

The current Fedora 29 Live Workstation image starts, but faces mysterious
freezes before the desktop appears. Installation to harddisk has worked, but
I've run into a series of unrelated issues, and the performance of GNOME Shell
isn't pretty. It takes too long to start a terminal, or suddenly the shell
freezes for 10-15 seconds and restarts.