I'm sorry to hear of your bad experience. Four of my Intel/AMD workstations are running Fedora Silverblue and Kiniote and I've thankfully never experienced the same. Either way, I'm glad you've found some success with Arch. It's still my go-to for the command line and all container work.
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This is old news and long-since resolved by RPM Fusion and/or flatpaks.
They're probably talking about Fedora dropping the h.264, h.265 and VC1 VA-API support back in 2022 for legal reasons due to patents:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Disable-Bad-VA-API
It's largely a non-issue as you can easily install the patched Mesa from RPM Fusion, and I believe all Flatpaks incorporate the codecs already.
Don't get me wrong, Arch is great and it will always have a place in my heart, but I also think Fedora is a top-tier project and I completely understand why they weren't comfortable risking patent law unnecessarily.
Unfortunately, I don't think there are any moderation alternatives on mobile, nor will there likely ever be. She's going to have to start using the official app or stop moderating on mobile altogether.
Classic theme ftw, and arguably the best version of the classic theme too.
Yep, it seems Boost died today. I don't frequent reddit these days, but my wife is still a mod there and she was using Boost for moderation right up until last night.
On the odd occasion that I do go to my old subs, they're filled with repost bots and low value comments.
I can't speak to Nobara, but Arch with KDE would be my vote if tweaking, documentation, and freshness (with potential instability) are the priorities.
Arch wins with respect to documentation; hands down, it's the best documented Linux distro in existence. KDE provides a ton of customization via GUI, and gaming is easily obtainable and quite good on any distro, largely due to Flatpak.
Where you might run afoul is the command line. I couldn't imagine running Arch without regular terminal use, but I'm sure you could get by for most tasks once KDE is up and running.
My Application Launcher menu is very slow with bad performance. It always freezes for half a second goes loads when I move mouse and freezes again. Does anyone experience this issue?
Assuming you're referring to KDE, I experienced this as well when I changed my default session from GNOME to KDE. There was something in my dotfiles that was affecting KDE's overall responsiveness, because the performance was perfectly fine when tested in a brand new profile. Ultimately, I resolved it by cleaning up my ~/.config and ~/.local folders.
Interesting. I followed the documentation from the various distros (Arch, Debian, and openSUSE), and added the following to /etc/sddm.conf.d/10-autologin.conf:
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=plasma (I've also tried plasma.desktop here)
User=thayer
I've confirmed that plasma.desktop exists in /usr/share/wayland-sessions/ and it's the session I normally select regardless of DM used.
I've also tried placing the autologin text in /etc/sddm.conf, /etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin, and the default /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf. No matter where it's saved, the settings are ignored and I'm brought right back to the greeter upon reboot. Nothing is logged in journald and SDDM doesn't write to its own log in /var/log.
I've also tried the above with and without the KDE Wallet service enabled (I normally keep it disabled).
If I use the System Settings GUI to set the above details (via Colors & Themes > Login Screen (SDDM) > Behavior), the System Settings app crashes upon close. I've had multiple updates since rebasing to Kinoite, so the chance of a corrupted package is nil.
Something is definitely afoot.
You've already received a ton of feedback, so I just to mention that if you ever find yourself without working WiFi, you can connect your cell phone to the computer and enable USB Tethering on the phone (Android and iOS). The computer will automatically detect this as a network connection, and use it, without the need for additional software. This works for Windows and Linux (and possibly macOS, I don't know).
I have to admit one of the first things I do when setting up a Fedora atomic distro is disable the Fedora flatpak repo and replace all existing apps with Flathub equivalents. Still, good info to keep in mind!