I use X11 with Nvidia without issue. While I like the idea of Wayland, and it being pushed a lot now, it really remains beta software. While I think it’s good Wayland is being focused on and promoted by the distros and DEs, I think it’s a bit of a distraction from Linux as a whole.

I’ve had to switch back to X11 on both Nvidia and AMD devices due to bugs or compatibility issues in Wayland.

I agree about VR - I keep dual boot windows on my PC and VR is about the only thing I use it for now. But the result is I just use VR less.

I said good riddance to Nvidia forever. My amd card is better anyhow and has never had an issue on Linux

Last round of nvidia drivers made a mess, nix has a wiki on the issues on how to fix them until they are resolved.

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia

Tbh running AMD isn’t easier. For my workload I needed OpenCL and when it wasn’t installed by default, and wasn’t apart of apt package manager. I had to follow a script which involves amdgpu and only having OpenCL install if I wanted my machine stable.

Not the best experience.

For Nvidia some distros have installers built in to handle it. Like Mint where it’s one click and a restart and I have everything.

I never had any major issues with nvidia and VR is improving aswell

Nothing is stopping you from using more than one OS. Use NixOS for everything other than what you’re having problems with. And not using it at all won’t do anything to solve the problems, use it and try updated and new things every now and then, eventually it’ll work.