It's not really KDE though, it's kinda it's own thing...
I have some very, very, very, very WIP KDE widgets for Dart/Flutter in a project running. Currently it has almost nothing but it already automatically switches color theme when you switch color schemes in KDE for example 😄
Don't expect too much of that though, it's very unofficial and something I'm doing whenever I feel like it.
You should probably mention the general area you live in for actual recommendations. Like I'd suggest public transport, but I know it's god awful in the USA and might not be an option for you if you live there.
Aurora isn't a reskinned F-Droid and neiter does it use the same repositories. It's a client for the Google Play Store, but one that doesn't require an account or Google Services. And that's not what F-Droid is.
It could, but it doesn't currently. Patches welcome!
You can yes, but you have to decide to either be stuck with Mastodon UX or Lemmy UX. They're both different and I like to switch UX whenever I please, and currently I need 2 accounts to do so.
They have completely different client API's so no it's not compatible. Quite a different UX as well, I don't think it would fit in well.
I'd love to be able to use 1 login for all of the Fediverse though, just switching clients based on the UX I want at that time.
In my case I don't have a choice in the matter, I need to use a Macbook for work so I can run Xcode for iOS apps. I will however have full control over the machine so am going to run Linux on it and only boot macOS when absolutely necessary.
I'm sure more people are like that.
Tbh a "normal" democracy doesn't only have 2 parties to choose from, none of which represents the majority of citizens. Your democracy sucks honestly.
Then literally just use Arch. I don't understand why people want Arch but then install something different. If you don't want to go through the install process then it's honestly just not for you, but if you really want to try anyway give EndeavourOS a shot.
The real question is, why are you considering Manjaro in the first place? What does it do that a different distro, without all the hate (which I personally think are 100% justified), doesn't do? Why "risk" it?
Yeah it'as weird. Afaik the apps are part of the KDE but the shell is not. No clue why, I'd remove Maui entirely from KDE tbh...
Index is, as you mentioned, really the only option on Plasma Mobile for managing your files, but Pix and Vvave can be replaced with Koko and Elise respectively. We should probably make work of that.