So, after EndeavourOSā€™s GRUB comitted suicide, me being too stupid to understand chroot despite wiki ā€œtutorialsā€ and the community rather trolling & gaslighting me instead of helping I decided to give Nobara a go. Usually I am a Plasma KDE guy, but thought since itā€™s been a long time I try it out, especially since you can have it in a more classic configuration those days again, even though Iā€™d miss out of Wallpaper Engine.

Unfortunately my experience has been nothing but awful. A bunch of random bullet points of my experience:

  • I had real trouble connecting my BT headphones. At first it was ā€œconnectedā€, but not really. Tried a fresh pairing mode, but then it showed two headphones. Then it connected, but as soon as I tried to adjust the audio input / output settings it lost audio again and I had to repeat it yet again. Now it works, and I decided to never touch the audio settings ever again.
  • ā€œFilesā€ is constantly crashing. Using the search? Crash. Going backwards? Crash. Try to do ā€œsomethingā€? Crash. Do nothing? Probably also crash (hyperbolic).
  • ā€œFilesā€ data transfer for copying & deleting files is slow as hell for whatever reason (on decent Samsung SSDs mind you).
  • ā€œFilesā€ cannot multitask. If youā€™re copying, scanning, deleting or whatever, it wonā€™t do anything else until that process is done.
  • ā€œFilesā€ and other Gnome applications frequently bug out if you try too many things at once, freezing or crashing them.
  • ā€œFilesā€, or even Gnome as a whole, is so incredibly scrapped for features to achieve its simplistic look, that it lacks actual functionality.
  • Gnomeā€™s settings are also missing for everything, or hidden in a gazillion different config menus, some of which I already forgot how to access again.
  • Scaling scales not just the UI, but also 3D applications like games, reducing their actual resolution and making them blurry. The UI seemed to be blurry as well.
  • Mullvad VPNā€™s tray icon somehow turned into some three dots with a weird background.
  • In the tray menu thereā€™s also a VPN toggle, which shows Mullvad, but being turned off. Turning it on disables my connection and I have to reconnect through Mullvad, which turns the toggle off again. No way to remove the redundant toggle as far as I can tell, but maybe itā€™s in some hidden settings menu that I have yet to find.
  • OpenRGB in this does not work with my NZXT Hue 2 Ambient. Keeps asking for resize zones, which according to a search should not be necessary, and wasnā€™t necessary with the one I used in EOS either. Selecting any color just turns the LEDs off.
  • Launching the Battle.net launcher through Lutris it also opens some ghost ā€œOpenGL Rendererā€ application with it, taking up space on the task bar.
  • Battle.net launcher canā€™t be maximized without constantly resetting or displaying information beneath the task bar.
  • Canā€™t launch .sh files unless I explicitly right click & Run as program.
  • Unfortunately it then launches with an additional empty terminal window, yet again taking up space on the task bar.
  • Had to create a new FF profile because using my old one somehow was unusable in regards to its performance.
  • The weather location for the little clock thingy apparently canā€™t find anything, city or country, except some locations that arenā€™t near me.
  • Canā€™t remove my own review in the Software center for one of the apps that I did prematurely.
  • Tray area also has this little tiling menu. I tried tiling, hated it. Couldnā€™t find a way to remove that icon to save space on the task bar.
  • After a lot of apps started to hang I tried restarting, just to be left in a blackscreen and the PC not shutting down. Had to hard reset to restart.
  • No EurKey keyboard layout. Thereā€™s a ā€˜German (US)ā€™ one thatā€™s close but itā€™s missing symbols.
  • Maybe probably more things that I canā€™t recall right now.

And thatā€™s just after a few hours of usage. I was making fun of the tiny issues in KDE before, but if I have to choose between that and this disaster then Iā€™m probably going to switch to the KDE edition, if I cannot find solutions to all this. I really donā€™t understand how people can deal with it? Or am I somehow the only one?

  • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I recommend Tumbleweed. It updates almost as fast as Arch, sometimes faster, but super stable with automated testing and in a pinch, snapper rollbacks. Great KDE integration.

    Yast looks outdated but itā€™s fine for what it is - a GUI for whatā€™s usually command line administrator operations.

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      1 year ago

      Probably my worst experience yet. Couldnā€™t even change my resolution to 1080p and it would also not install a bootloader on my old test laptop. Idea is nice, but the critical bugs and antique software really speak against it.