That is just dlss or some other ai upscaling effect. Turn that off and youre good. Not a linux problem

Same here. I wish I had bought an AMD GPU. Dealing with nvidia drivers is the only issues I have nowadays with linux

There have been a few nvidia specific bugs recently I stumbled upon. One was that dx setup just hangs if I install new games with proton 8. Solved by just killing the process during install. The other one was that all games became extremly laggy, like 1fps on X11. That can be worked around by using wayland, which brings new bugs to the table. Oh the joy of nvidia drivers

They used a special SoC that gets support from qualcomm for 15 years.

Interesting! I didn't know that, thanks for responding

Yeah, I gad a lot of problems with it on NixOS.l, to the point of kde becoming unresponsive during shader processing. I had a much better experience once I installed cfs zen tweaks which iptimizes the ketnel a bit for desktop usage.

If its fossilize_replay its doing the necessary shader work on linux and should stop once the shader cache us completed. If not I have no idea

Hey, sorry for the late reply. I found the blog by xiaoso quite good, and this one also isn't too bad. But I never found one true source which explained it satisfactorily to me. It's probably best if you just browse through other people's configuration and piece it all together from that. From what I understood, flakes have 3 main uses:

1. They replace nix channels. If you want to switch between stable and unstable it's pretty easy to do through flakes. Also, if you need any modules (like home manager or agenix, for encrypting secrets) you can simply import it as an import for your flake.
2. You can "modularize" your configuration. You can describe multiple systems in a single flake so you can have your desktop and laptop be built from the same flake, but with different packages installed. This is the part that I use most and honestly find most useful.
3. You can quickly have a development environemnt through flakes. You could use a flake per project, have all your dependencies as inputs in your dev flakes and never clutter your system with various dev tools

Nixos is riddled with stuff that you just "have to know" which can be quite frustrating. The lon ger you stick with it, the easier it gets though.

Then you should just try it out. If it doesn't work for you, you can easily switch back from your login screen.