I've used Arch, Manjaro, and Endeavour. For ease of use it's between Manjaro and Endeavour and I'd pick Endeavour. Arch is great too. When you're ready to go deeper, give it a shot.
I've used Arch, Manjaro, and Endeavour. For ease of use it's between Manjaro and Endeavour and I'd pick Endeavour. Arch is great too. When you're ready to go deeper, give it a shot.
I agree with a bunch of the comments here but wanted to add that there's a decades-long legacy of good FOSS/Linux support on Thinkpads. Before any of these companies existed, Linux was running pretty reliably on Thinkpads.
I do like the newer options with these newer manufacturers, but I won't be getting rid of my Thinkpads any time soon. I'm running a Framework now too.
How does the immutability come into play with Nitrux vs, say NixOS?
I've read that systemd-homed can do encrypted home directories but I haven't tried it, much less on WSL but that may get you to achieve the encrypted home directory at least.
Personally I don't think I would have a need to encrypt all of WSL, but maybe that also makes sense for your case.
ArchWiki example: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-homed
Have you tried installing the respective agents inside the VMs that assists with the guest interfacing?
These generally help with the mouse input lag and host-guest interfacing that can be sometimes slow in virtual consoles, etc. I don't know to what degree you consider 'perfectly smooth', so you may be talking about something beyond that but I hope it helps.