Verdict: No
No. NVIDIA lists the app for Windows 10 and Windows 11 only. The graphics driver itself is on Linux and works well, but the app around it, including ShadowPlay and the game settings, is not.
The NVIDIA app, which replaced GeForce Experience, requires Windows 10 or Windows 11. Linux is not on the list and NVIDIA has not said it will be.
Your card is still properly supported, and that is the part that matters. NVIDIA writes and publishes its own Linux driver, kept at the same version numbers as the Windows one. On the beginner distributions you turn it on from a drivers settings window rather than downloading anything, and after that driver updates arrive with the rest of your system updates instead of through a separate app.
What goes missing is everything the app wrapped around the driver. ShadowPlay game recording, the automatic per-game settings, Freestyle filters and the built-in performance overlay have no NVIDIA-made Linux version. OBS Studio records and streams gameplay and is what Linux users install for that. MangoHud draws the performance numbers over a game. Game settings you set inside each game yourself.
Nothing of yours is stored in the app. Recordings you made with ShadowPlay are ordinary video files and play fine on Linux in VLC or mpv.
Replaces ShadowPlay for recording and streaming. More capable, but you set up a scene first rather than pressing one hotkey.
Your files: Recordings you already made are ordinary video files and play on Linux without conversion.
Replaces the in-game performance overlay. Fiddlier to switch on, and it does not adjust any graphics settings.
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need NVIDIA app. Everything else you do can move.
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