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I rarely use my personal laptop at my desk, I use it on my lap in front of the TV unless I have a specific need for external displays. Last night, I went to use it at my desk.
Hardware: The same USB-C dongle, two ultrawide and single FHD monitors as ever.
Software: Fully updated @opensuse #Tumbleweed with #NVIDIA drivers.

This all "just worked" last time I used it. Now, I can only use enable one ultrawide at a time.

I shall dig into logs later.

Encountered some serious instability on modern #AMD (Strix) devices using #Linux due to the GPU driver crashes.

Potential fixes for these are coming in Kernel 6.15-rc2. Luckily #OpenSuse builds them for #Tumbleweed seemingly automatically.
software.opensuse.org/package/

These things are reasons I'd never, EVER recommend buying a new Windows' off-the-shelf device and try to put Linux on it to someone who isn't at least an enthusiast. The additional ~200€ Linux device vendors take are worth it!

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@maxxieb (1/2)
I had to refrain from calling "Bingo", because I had anticipated that question. But it is an obvious question that deserves an answer. I also had to stop myself from quoting Shakespeare ("There more things ...").

In my case it boils down to this:
1. I have been experimenting with using #NixOS on my laptop, where I do all of my (private) things. I also have home-manager on my work laptop.
I can almost do all of the things I can on my #openSUSE #Tumbleweed laptop. This includes packaging for openSUSE.

But I have not converted all of my 3 dozen different VMs, servers, raspis, NUCs and whatnot to NixOS. They will keep running a mixture of immutable (openSUSE #MicroOS, #Fedora #CoreOS, NixOS, ...) and non-immutable things (Debian, Proxmox, ...). And I would like to be able to manage them from whatever host I am currently working from. Hence I would like to have a working Ansible environment on my NixOS laptop to manage other machines with.