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I continue to have a hard time with it. I desperately want to like it but feel like it doesn't handle laptop Nvidia right. I keep getting boot to black screen on KDE and have to rfkill unblock on install and just a host of issues I can't seem to ever nail down. Might have to try again since switcherooctl, but there are some rough edges for me.
Love MicroOS for server though. Rock solid.
For nvidia hardware, use nvidia images of Aurora/Bluefin (or Bazzite if you want gaming out of the box). All the OSes I mentioned are based on Fedora Atomic and offer image options for nvidia proprietary drivers. They even signing the kernel drivers, so you can use Secure Boot.
I have distro hopped my dang brains out with everything under the sun. I'm back to Mint. It works without being an absolute pain and is boring as watching paint dry, which is the point of an OS. I just use it to compute, work, code, and game. it boots and updates eventually.