Nix has its place in the Linux ecosystem but I would never blindly recommend it to someone. It’s a niche distro for a niche set of people. This person is afraid the Linux quirks are too much for them and you throw them Nix. That’s an awful fit.

Try Linux Mint instead, which is a very user friendly distro.

Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t cachyos deploying the exact same solution? The only difference seems to be that their package manager offers to swap the packages.

These are the official drivers, it is just a pinned version that won’t be updated anymore. It should work as well as it did before the switcheroo.

AMD cards have support directly in the Kernel, its usually plug and play. You just have to be careful about brand new cards (ie: released very recently) to ensure your distribution of choice has a new enough kernel and mesa.

No need to reinstall the entire os, just swap the driver packages…

Have you tried the aur package mentioned in the Arch News? https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

I don’t see why it wouldn’t work with wayland.

I like the rolling updates, to be honest. Endeavour has been a wonderful and simple experience. Aside from some NVIDIA issues with Wayland it has been a blast.

It’s single thread, one file at a time.

Bad example since lucky literally means good luck.

If you want to create keyboard layouts, keyd is very good for that. You can create several keyboard layers and use whatever key you want as a modifier.

I use it to mimic the windows “US International with dead keys” layout that I’ve grown used to but it can do so much more.

I use keyd

Very customizable.

Not with Hyprland, I had to set a nice chunk of variables to make it work properly.

You can ask the receptionist “Where is the Linux section?”, walk up to it and there it is. And you can grab a book and skim through it to see whether it suits you.

You can also go to google, ask “How linux works” and skim through the results.

I’m not saying libraries are bad, they’re obviously amazing (and yes, I’ve been to libraries lol). However, in these sort of questions OP is usually looking for personal recommendations, something that you already read, heard about or found interesting to share. Yes library has books, but which book would you personally recommend OP to read? Which one do you like the best and why?

Recommending the library when someone is asking for information on a specific topic is almost as helpful as pointing them to a search engine. “Just google it and use whichever result you like”.

Self hosting an email server is a pain in the ass and I don’t really recommend it.

Buying your own domain and using it in whatever email provider you want is very easy and gives you ownership over the email address. You may switch providers freely without needing anyone else to do anything.