Russ @ russjr08 @bitforged.space

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Your fears were right, looks like this just got pushed to stable unfortunately.

Edit: They've pushed an update to fix this

I like installing various DEs every now and then to see how they're doing, and if their workflow matches up with what I'd expect. Right now I have KDE as my main, GNOME, and Hyprland (not a DE technically but...) all installed.

However, you do have to be careful as like the OP mentioned it can be a bit annoying, KDE and GNOME tend to overwrite each other's settings, for example in Nautilus it displays the Breeze icon theme - I can switch it, but then Dolphin will display the Adwaita icon theme. The workaround for this in specific is to use a third party icon pack, so that it doesn't look out of place on either side.

Additionally, any GTK apps now use the GTK theme instead of the Breeze-GTK theme, so Firefox in KDE has GNOME-like toolbars which I have no problem with, but others might. You can of course switch it, but then it'll look really out of place in GNOME.

Still much easier for me than reinstalling everything all over again, only to then decide "actually, I don't want to use GNOME" and then reinstall again however.

Ah, EndeavourOS uses systemd-boot by default these days (it definitely does update that by automatically as well), I would really advise new users changing it away from that default.

Edit: Whoops, slight typo there. I wouldn't advise new users changing away from the default systemd-boot option.

Wait, what aspect of the bootloader doesn't get updated?

Kinoite is the KDE plasma version of the Fedora atomic (previously known as immutable) spins yeah. However, as far as I've heard Fedora KDE is explicitly removing Xorg support in Fedora 40, due for release this spring.

Right now the latest release is 39 which still supports both, and for me personally when I still had an Nvidia card up until right after the 545 driver release in October, Wayland (in both GNOME and KDE) was too buggy for me to use it as a daily driver, since Xwayland apps kept displaying previous frames, as if the application was time-jumping in random parts of it.

Speaking of Nvidia, I wouldn't recommend going with Kinoite directly since AFAIK it doesn't have the Nvidia drivers built in, rather I'd go with the KDE version of Universal Blue since all of their images have a dedicated Nvidia image that has the driver built in, so that you don't have to mess around to get it up and running. It's effectively Kinoite, with a few extra nice things baked-in on top.

Also confirming the 6700 XT is a great card, replaced my 2080 with it - its been nice not dealing with Nvidia's weird issues.

KDE Frameworks is a set of libraries that can be used to help developers make Qt apps:

KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

The only game that I keep Windows around for is Destiny 2... I know, but it's the game my closest friends are often playing - but I've been playing it less and less so I might actually end up removing Windows completely if the next expansion doesn't go well.

Now that I have a Steam Deck, I have zero reasons to get into Windows-only games anymore.

Definitely reach out to their support if it's still giving you issues, I'd imagine a lot of people are coming back for 1.0 so it could very well be something they're able to easily/quickly fix now.

Have you checked out Last Epoch yet? Fantastic ARPG even for being in Early Access (which I don't usually invest into), though the 1.0 release is at the end of this month.

I can't recommend it enough!

Rocket League, which before I had my Deck I didn't even really get into all that much so it kinda took me by surprise. Seems to even have no problem playing at the high quality graphics levels at a steady 90 FPS too.

Additionally, since EA is having a massive sale right now I picked up Burnout Paradise and the mass effect legendary edition, along with all of the NFS games.

I don't personally use iOS, but some friends of mine have given good reviews about Podcast Republic - note that it has a one-time ads free unlock to it.

It has to be a link to a direct image, the image can't be on a webpage or such. Generally that ends in .png (or another photo-related extension) for convention (but not strictly required, depends on how the server is configured).

Kagi now has a lens for focusing results from the Fediverse, I've seen it pull Lemmy links before!

Wait what, really? Has hell actually frozen over now?!

I've been trying to get into the Borderlands games, since surprisingly I've never played them (though I've played games that my friends have told me are "spiritual successors" to the BL games, such as Destiny). Though, I am getting stuck at the first bosses for BL1 and 2 haha.

I thought that was taken down by Valve (for supposedly using a proprietary Nintendo library), not Nintendo themselves?

Sliding Sync does work fully for me on my Synapse server with Element X clients, it just doesn't support the "regular" version of Element/Element Desktop (yet?) as far as I know.

Quite nice too!

As far as I'm aware, it works if you set it as your default sort order through the Web for your account, but if you change it in app you have to force close and reopen to reset it back to the default from the web/API.

Btrfs snapshots + Timeshift that is configured to run pre-update is great for this, though I cannot remember if Fedora's layout is compatible with Timeshift's expected configuration.

OP, If you really want to go 100% with this, something like NixOS (which is definitely an extreme investment) or an Atomic distro like Fedora Silverblue works very well for this.