Haha, nice! Happy to hear that! But sometimes it do be like that

I think this is somewhat of a known issue with Plasma 6. Happens intermittently to me as well. But seemingly the latest versions should have it fixed

Add to this, the constant badmouthing of GNU and FSF from the crony bootlickers and sadly this is what we get

The tech crowd is also more of a consumer kind these days than the hacky kind, so it’s much easier to push corporate shite with a little bit of polish on top

2025 is finally the year of the Linux desktop!

What’s the output of systemctl status systemd-resolved

flatpak

You mean as a client or a server?

Yay! They’ve done some excellent work. It’s an amazing piece of software. And has a rich history, too. Maybe this release is finally the kick I need to learn it better

So that’s why we have mobile phones

Yeah, it seems like these immutable distros with individually contained apps (maybe with some additional restrictions and hardening) are similar to what OP wants. There’s a lot of distros like this

Nix doesn’t really guarantee reproduciblity, though. It’s a neat idea for deterministic configurations. But bit by bit reproducible binary builds are an entire difference beast. GNU Guix has way more promise in that regard

It’s console servers all the way down (up?)

It’s included

It’s been working fine since a couple years on Intel. It works on my Intel machines with both old and recent cpus

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox#Hardware_video_acceleration

Does any app which asks for permission to elevate to root work?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Polkit

You might have to translate the names to what Fedora reposi provide. But this should be a good start

Initrd has support to configure the keyboard layout used. Consult your initrd generator’s documentation for this

Code new roman! It’s so cosy, and readable. I am a sucker for fonts with the cursive styled ‘a’

thanks for the reminder! don’t want another potential denvercoder9 situation

This is a common but solvable problem. I’m afk so can’t link the right pages, but look up the LibreOffice and/or consistent gtk/qt theming entries on Arch Wiki

Edit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreOffice#Theme might be useful. It also links to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications, which is worth looking into as well

Absolutely sickening. Words can not express how much I loathe this prick

Do you have some before and after screenshots? Would be interesting to look at the difference