I went from Arch to NixOS and I’ve been loving it. I also had all the time on the world to dive in with several machines to fall back to.

There are a lot of layers to wade through especially when you need a specific tool like your UE5 case. As others are saying, there are ways to make everything work, nix or non-nix, it’s just more to work through after getting the bases covered.

Anecdotally, I had little trouble getting set up on my MSI laptop with an RTX2070, Primus and all. That was after learning the ropes on a Ryzen IdeaPad.

Rambling aside, I would definitely make sure to start in a non-mission-critical way, but do jump right in if you’re comfortable. Maybe if you can stomach the Asus a bit longer, or get the Framework set up and play around with the Asus. And ask plenty of questions! I know I’m not alone in jumping in on nix questions any way I can :)

If you like obsidian, synching works well to at least selfhost your data.

shit log

My first reaction was also to make fun, but it kinda seems neat and it’s different, which I welcome. Really hope there’s plans to support one strip across monitors cause that would be kind of dope to look at.

Edit: also I’ve had a pretty easy time with a 2070 running Wayland once the drivers and wm are right. I did manage to mess up my old nixos generations trying to get started and changing things around lmao. Landed on hyprland, and it’s smooth.

I learned a ton from this, it’s kind of “The Book” I guess. For OP, there’s a pretty massive series of blog posts I fumbled along with too, https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/introduction/ though it’s a couple years old.

For some reason I thought it was more annoying to work out than it looks to be. @RegalPotoo@lemmy.world you might want to check out nix-versions

I only started diving into nix this year so I’m still learning, but yeah, I’m pretty sure the lack of granular versioning is a common pain point with nixpkgs. I’d suggest checking out flakes if you haven’t already, but be warned, it gets hairy lol

Is this Nix bait? Cause I’d say Nix.

Proton on Linux is annoying to say the least. I’ve got it mostly working on my distro and without a DE. Have you checked the protovnpvn_reconnector service, assuming you’re on systemd? It’s kind of odd that it just slows to a crawl but maintains connection.