The COPR package didn't work for me on Nobara, so I had to build from source, but it works great. There are a couple of things I don't like, but overall seems pretty neat.
If I can get Xwayland to work nicely for steam with high refresh rates, then it seems like this might be the WM for me until COSMIC-DE comes out.
As others have stated, porkbun + cloudflare + ddclient will do everything you need.
I totally empathize. I did the same thing at the end of 2020 and just switched to an AMD GPU last month.
What hardware do you have? I have all AMD, and it works just fine on Nobara on Wayland.
That's a neat trick. I'll have to try that next time.
I've just been using fzf with a floating terminal window, and it's been great. I don't understand the need for rofi/wofi/dmenu.
I wish it were that simple. The motherboard I was using had built-in wifi, which, while technically on a B-Key M.2 slot, was buried beneath RF shielding, heatsinks, and plastic cowling. On top of that, I would have had to take off the CPU heatsink and take out the GPU to get to it.
I tried just removing the external antennae and looking in the BIOS for a way to disable the WiFi card before looking for a way to bypass the network requirement. Removing the antennae still showed a few available networks, and I couldn't find a way to disable the card in the BIOS.
Sure, there may be other things I could have tried. I could have taken the computer apart, rebuilt it, installed Windows, taken it apart, and rebuilt it again. I could have isolated my wireless access point from the internet in the hopes that it would give up and give me the option then. None of the available options were as simple as "just don't connect it to a network, dude."
The windows installer did not give me an option to not connect to wifi as long as there were networks available, of which there are many in my apartment complex.
You can manually download drivers from Nvidia, and that's basically what this tool I'm using does for me, but for GPU drivers in particular, you want to have the newest version available, especially if you like to play new games on launch day. The only way to officially get automatic game-ready Nvidia drivers is through the GeForce Experience app, which, as you said, requires an account.
For sure, there are compromises no matter what you pick. I just hit the point where Linux checked enough boxes for me to ditch Windows. I hope that it gets to that point for you eventually!
That's fine, and people said the same thing about Windows 10, and Windows 7, and Windows XP, and...
If you control for bloat, tracking, and ads, the install process for Windows versions has gotten steadily more difficult as time goes on. Installing Windows 11 is a snap, too, ... if you don't care about all the crap they added.
The thing us Linux users are complaining about is not how easy it is to install if you accept the enshittification that Microsoft forces, but how difficult it is to install without it.
Windows 11 Pro is $200. There are ways to get it cheaper, but that is what Microsoft charges for it...and they still collect a bunch of data and serve you a bunch of ads.
Proxmox w/Debian, TrueNAS Scale, and Home Assistant VMs w/(usually Alpine) Docker containers in some VMs