I use slack and zoom no problem from nix, you just have to set the allow unfree packages option. nvidia is just janky on linux, period. what you’re experiencing is normal for nvidia, unfortunately. if you’re on Wayland, try X, and vice versa. might work better on one or the other. I know zoom works flawlessly on X.

Honestly for proprietary apps I use Flatpaks. I just have the daemon for that enabled in my nix config. It’s too bad having to manage 2 packaging systems, but I only need a few things installed from flathub and it makes life easier.

god I’m not brave enough to try flatpak on nixos. trying to make appimages work scared me off of the "universal " formats. I just beat my head into the wall learning how to write nix packages.

upgraded my hdd to an ssd and decided might as well do a new install

I’m using Debian now but I still use the desktop environment/UI that Mint uses because it’s so nice.

What’s that like, and how is it different from just Mint?

I assume mostly package management?

Ooh, I love that it’s Ubuntu, so it’s familiar, and it looks so nice! I’ll use that distro when I get bored of Mint, thanks! I’m told a large part of being a Linux user is trying out different distro’s, lmao

Disclaimer: I witnessed the birth of Twink on Hexbear, I can’t think of anyone more welcome