Faulty firmware. Don’t upgrade linux-firmware for a while?

Ah yes, the obligatory NixOS recommendation post.

On a serious note though, NixOS IS well-suited for this purpose.

Hol up Photopea’s nonfree software?!

Come fight us in the comments instead… goddamn AI user

Why has OP’s post been downvoted to begin with?

Zen

Disagree. Apple is another evil. Period. They might be better than Microsoft, but thatvdoes not make them good in any way.

c/usernamechecksout /s

OP, note that Nvidia isn’t as bad on Linux as it used to be.

Adding to your comment, perhaps having 2 separate bootloaders reduces the chances of such breakages.

Could you share laptop specs? Judging by your post any distro should work fine. Can’t go wrong choosing a popular distro like Fedora or Mint.

I have this printer and it works flawlessly using the proprietary drivers.

Totally wrong. Even then, disko makes things easy.