I have officially been sold on #nixos ...
My AMD 7800XT GPU has been kind of a pain, requiring latest kernel drivers to even get linux booting, but my gaming experience is wayyyy better than my old NVIDIA card.
The biggest headache on #archlinux came when trying to use #blender as I didn't have access to the HIP renderer on the open source drivers. So anytime I would want to switch to Blender, I had to do this whole song and dance of installing all the AMDGPU pro drivers, hope it worked, then uninstall and reboot when I want to play games again, because the pro driver does not play well with Proton it seems.
Well TIL that Nix has a blender-hip package, that appears to build everything blender needs for the HIP renderer, and appears to keep it contained from my main system. So blender has access to proprietary drivers, but my games seem to run without issue on the open source driver.
I'm unsure if this is unique to NixOS, but it's one line in my config, and it seems to "just work", so this is literally perfect, and if this is stable I think I might have found my forever OS lol.
#linux#blender3d