For hardware stability you should check out:
Search for the Distro or Laptop you want and chrck the user reports for the other factors. I noticed that some Laptops work better with some distros than others so lock the factor that is more important to you.
For distro stability, something others have not mentioned:
Zorin OS has a pay once option where allegedly everything just works. Maybe thats interesting to consider as an option.
I don’t think it applies here, but I’d like to tell you my perspective in case you find it interesting anyway.
I am a developer and I often need relatively new versions of everything dev related.
Contrary to popular belief - I had the best experience in regards to stability with archlinux. I have it installed both on a PC (when I need to do some Blender or heavy Photoshop work) and on a thin and light Laptop (for a flexible work space and stuff on the go) - and I use both about 50/50 of the time.
To be fair, I am knoledgable in the Linux user libs/apps space and it took a lot of knowledge to set everything up in a reliable way just the way I want and need it. I’d say arch is extremely customizabe and there exists a narrow path where you can make it pretty reliable, but there are also many sidepaths which can be unreliable and break often.
After setting it up though, my maintenance times for archlinux were significantly lower than each of the following
But also take this with a grain of salt, because my so. also has a pretty similar arch linux setup on similar hardware and they have more issues than I do and we don’t really know why :D
At least the two I care about most already have an open issue in the bugtracker, which I am following for updates.
I’ll search for the other two when I am bothered enough and report them if they aren’t
Hmm interesting. I am on wayland for sure, but I tried to make it work for an hour yesterday.
How I noticed it:
I started an install process in pamac gui, then I tabbed to browser window and typed some stuff. Pamac finished downloads and asked for confirmation, the default being cancel and me typing ENTER cancelled it. Mouse was on the browser window and each app was on a different monitor.
I was able to repeatedly reproduce it by doing the same. I have set focus stealing prevention to high, which is described as focus only being stolen when the same type of window is active.
Is my issue maybe that both ran through xwayland? I’ll have to check that later.
I use the fullscreen start menu. I can’t select search results with keyboard anymore.
Inverting window colors doesn’t work for me anymore, after they set the default to wayland. (I used it for app’s which don’t have a dark theme)
Focus stealing prevention (global setting and window rules) doesn’t work anymore.
window positioning guidelines keep flickering in and out of existence all day, even when I don’t resize any windows.
They borked some features which I used and haven’t fixed them yet.
KDE also has multiple full time employees afaik
Personally I like the following two approaches:
Free and open source for selfhosting, paid when hosted by the company (e.g Nextcloud, gitea, cal.com)
Free and open source with basic features, paid for proprietary business addons (e.g Portmaster, Xpipe)
I think those approaches are fully compatible with the open source definition, but please correct me if I am wrong. (The examples I mentioned are just some of which I personally know and use, but of course they are many others)
I’m quite happy with:
Tiny Weather Forecast Germany (Weather forecast based on open data from the Deutscher Wetterdienst.) https://f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffeemitkoffein.tinyweatherforecastgermany/
It has nice widgets.
I’ll mirror it on my selfhosted git. Just hit me up when you need the files lol
I am using pamac-all on archlinux, which is kind of like that. It works only on arch linux afaik. It has the repos, AUR, flatpak, and snap support.
One monitor not working after sleep - “insignificant”
Thats the true Linux nerd mentality :D
Jokes aside, can you check for anything gpu or monitor related in journalctl after the wakeup?
I disabled the second login prompt on my KDE archlinux, since the LUKS one already pretty much authenticates me to my Laptop.
I have no clue which desktop environmen and session manager Nobara uses, but you can probably disable the login password somewhere in the settings.
The nobots module I’ve linked bombs them
Thats an easy modification. Just redirect or reverse proxy to the tarpit instead of abort .
I was even thinking about an infinitely linked data-poisoned html document, but there seemed to be no ready made project that can generate one at the moment. (No published data-poisoning techniques for plain text at all afaik. But there is one for images.)
Ultimately I decided to just abort the connection as I don’t want my servers to waste traffic or CPU cycles.
When I hit ‘get new widgets’ I get an empty window with no results. When I type something in the search box, nothing comes up. Has been like that for years.
When I hit ‘install from file’ I can’t select the tar.gz which you get from downloading.
So I am either missing some module (which is possible, because I installed a minimal kde plasma, instead of the big meta package) or something else is wrong.
Anybody knows what arch package I need so that the install button on the kde pling store works? I want the cat. I’ve installed ocs-url but it just gives an error saying invalid
I already have a VPN
FreeTube is my darling on Desktop
dd ?