“Main” home computer. I don't need “gaming laptop” to take it anywhere with me, but I prefer to have some more CPU/GPU power when I need it.

I actually downgraded from full-blown mid/high-spec PC build, because I didn't need as much power as current consumer grade CPU/GPU combos provide. I only do light gaming (or play on PS3), and when I need GPU for specific reason, I'm probably jumping between CUDA versions which forces me to reinstall the OS on such platform every once in a while.

Debian 13 (trixie) with main contrib non-free repositories.

Under nouveau, Xorg liked to tear and whatnot. It was not a smooth experience. I've followed this (debian-wiki: NvidiaGraphicsDrivers) wiki on official NVIDIA drivers on Debian using dkms. Overall it was smooth installation experience, except when Grub decided to randomly choose kernel 6.12.48+deb13-rt-amd64 instead of 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 for which the driver was built. This made me go into rabbit-hole of Xorg debugging, only to find out, that I needed to boot with another kernel.