For my desktop PC, it felt just as easy as any other distro, but for my servers and especially for my SBCs, a pain.

On NixOS I just copy and pasted like 2-4 lines of recommended configuration and applied it. The driver was then automatically downloaded and installed and I haven’t had to touch it since.

I come back every year or so and play for a month or two each time, still haven’t spent money on it (but starting to think I should, to support the devs)