For me it's usually easier to "watch free online" rather than searching and downloading torrent, like, I have client installed just in case, but I barely use it. Last time I used it actually was official 9front iso, not pirating.
And also I never had nvidia chips, I have one very old from AMD, and other computers use just intel integrated graphic.
I think it very depends on your hardware. I, personally, never had problems with it, on thinkpad which I use right now WiFi drivers were out of box even in Gentoo minimal ISO(It uses iwlwifi). But, every hardware that I have is about 10yo. And I think I haven't any non-intel WiFi-cards.
But also one of my friends had to compile drivers for his card manually from github, and second friend had issues with his WiFi constantly disconnecting which we couldn't solve.
Watermelon have cracks(?) in a shape of :3
I decided to run it on system without bash as neofetch replacement. It feels unreasonably complex, I spent unreasonable amount of time fighting with cmake. On normal system I have pfetch in my bashrc, since it's basically instant, and neofetch for screenshots. It's not instant, but I don't run it every second or something.
And btw I do love speed and simplicity of C, but for fetch tool, POSIX shell is the best choice, I think.