You're right that they don't, but they should at least care about long-term support and repairability, and maybe they would with a little education.
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Honestly, I don't see what you're saying.
What looks wrong with it exactly?
also I just type what I want in the search and just hit enter tbh and so do most linux users so I can't imagine caring much. The people who do care would probably like the older experience.
What exactly feels back in time about a modern kde desktop for you?
Not if they care about typing, repairability, or long term support though
For the vast majority of usecases it is ready, niche applications sure, but most people could use linux these days.
I do free infinite troubleshooting on matrix and specialize in this exact situation, feel free to message me. I recommend something based on immutable fedora because it's breakage resistant (immutable means the core system is read only and updates all at once on reboot) and fedora because it's very up to date but still stable, try aurora (it's fedora immutable with some small improvements)
do kde, always kde or gnome unless you know what you're doing, but kde is better
Usually that is a oom situation in my experience, check out earlyoom
There are stories like this for every distro, unfortunately.
This is not actually true, mint supports x.org hacks for those things, not natively and properly, for example, the way mixed refresh rates work is like this: lets say you have a 60fps and 120fps monitor, both will actually run at 120, but half will be culled on the 60, meaning much worse performance and battery life... this becomes exceptionally bad if they are not clean multiples, say a 144hz and 60.
fractional scaling works in a similarly hacky way, it renders at 2x and then downscales, as does mixed dpi, meaning you're paying the full rendering cost.
they kinda work, but these are terribly hacky workarounds that are impossible to avoid due to the fundamental nature of x.org. This is not something they can fix without wayland support, which will take forever to mature into usability because their dev speed is so slow.
the logic of the mods is that winnie the pooh is a racist charicature because he's yellow
sure, day to day it might not matter if you don't do anything weird, but when it does matter... it matters a lot
and you're not gaining anything by sacrificing these additions.
Tbh this is a nonsense idea and politics cannot be accurately in any way summed up as left or right: