I’ve run Linux for years on servers and in VMs in VMware Workstation, but not my main OS because of games. I’ve tried before but games just didn’t work well. Tried again recently and the games I’m playing now worked with no issues with Lutris and Steam. I could already do “everything else” on Linux so this is the longest I’ve gone without booting back to my Windows disk. Already have a Kali VM in virt-manager and will add a Windows VM if I hit an application snag. But so far haven’t had any app issues. If this continues I’ll be wiping the Windows disk to make more space for Linux.

What Vivaldi features do you feel are game changing? I’m not that familiar with it and would love to hear from someone who uses Vivaldi.

Thank you. These examples show more settings than I’ve found anywhere.

Yes, after switching to the NixOS KDE desktop it is very nice looking desktop environment out of the box. Nice than the NixOS Xfce setup. I was also pointed to plasma manager to try moving some settings into my .nix files.

I asked this question on Mastodon and got some helpful answers. I haven’t had the time to try anything yet, but here are some links. KDE: https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager Gnome: https://hoverbear.org/blog/declarative-gnome-configuration-in-nixos/ Xfce may be similar to the Gnome article but using xfconf and xfconf-query to get the settings to apply. Again I haven’t tried any of these suggestions. This is a summary of the info I got elsewhere.