Yes, I do have the same issue. Though, I noticed it with secure notes since I usually only update those. It does actually save the first time, it is just the UI that doesn't update. You can verify it by clicking on another login and back to this one after the first save.
If you are a little keen on learning the ins-and-outs of Linux, I highly recommend staying with Fedora. In my opinion, it has a great balance of stability and cutting-edge software selection in its repositories. The problems you have outlined are due to the default desktop environment choice of GNOME in Workstation Edition. The developers of GNOME are kind of perfectionists and have their own vision of what a desktop environment should be like. This often leads to having some common functionality most people want missing, at least without community-made extensions. KDE Plasma, on the other hand, is quite receptive to feature-requests and has all the functionality you mentioned, while being just as well supported development-wise.
Have your swap file in another btrfs subvolume. E.g: @swap mounted to /swap and put your swap file there. All subvolumes under the root subvolume will be excluded from your snapshots.
I highly suspect the culprit is the touchpad. I have a pretty modern ASUS Zenbook laptop and its touchpad has horrible palm rejection on Linux, but works just fine on Windows. I often move the cursor to a point where a click wouldn't do anything, like the bottom panel in KDE Plasma, or just outright disable it for that session. My guess would be that ASUS is sending nonstandard signals to the OS which is then misinterpreted by poor libinput. My next laptop will definitely be a Framework or Tuxedo, just because of this annoyance.
Heroic Games Launcher and added to the Game Mode. Native resolution with FSR2 set to Quality preset. Most of the game ran at 25-30 FPS. Frankly, the game is quite slow-paced. Only problematic spots were the first boss fight in the forest during rain and the final shootout near the end of the game where it dipped to 17-18 FPS.
I propose asking if the person is primarily using a laptop or a desktop computer. For example: I do use disk encryption and Secure Boot on my laptop, but not on my desktop.
I played Alan Wake 2 last winter on my Steam Deck, fearing I would get spoilers before I build my PC. Now that I have built it, I will proceed with The Final Draft and the DLCs.
Yes, I do have the same issue. Though, I noticed it with secure notes since I usually only update those. It does actually save the first time, it is just the UI that doesn't update. You can verify it by clicking on another login and back to this one after the first save.