Glad to hear that!

A bit of Arch Wiki and Podman’s own documentation.

I usually set :Z at the end of volume mounts and it fixes the permission issues. Now that I think about it, all my Quadlets are using this option.

Yeah, I have been using it like that for a while. It is just a single environment variable.

I got a very recent Thinkpad and it apparently has official support for Ubuntu and Fedora. I went with Fedora KDE.

1. Linux is intentionally made to be modular and using the terminal is pretty much the only standard way to do things across many distributions.

I highly suggest you stop avoiding it because it will most likely be faster and easier to do something (i.e. system-level changes) with it than not.

2. If you want a hard-to-fuck-up distro, I think Atomic (at least that’s what Fedora calls them) distros are the best.

Similar to smartphones or MacOS, entire OS is a singular image that is also updated all at once. Core parts of the filesystem is also read-only, meaning it is pretty much impossible to mess things up if you don’t mean to do so deliberately.

The best in this regard are from uBlue project: Bazzite (most popular), Bluefin, Aurora, etc. While Bazzite is intended for gaming (things like Steam are pre-installed), the other are for general use. Bluefin uses GNOME desktop, while Aurora has KDE Plasma desktop environment. Look up their visuals and choose whichever one you like. I prefer Aurora because KDE Plasma is often much more familiar to Windows users.

3. uBlue distros don’t require a password for system updates (they happen automatically in the background) and so do installing/updating programs.

Fedora is not Red Hat. While they fund Fedora development, they don’t dictate how to it is ran.

Fedora KDE pretty much offers the best KDE Plasma experience, maybe right after OpenSuse.

If you are still using Fedora, I recommend sticking with it. It doesn’t get much better than that.

What you are referring to are the window decorations.

Apart from Linux Mint, Firefox almost always uses client-side decorations. What you are showing here is still client-side.

It is just that Mozilla recently enabled vertical tabs option for everyone, so the top bar is now slightly smaller than before. You can disable vertical tabs easily by searching in the settings.

I am using an atomic distribution (uBlue) and installing packages with homebrew is much more convenient than overlaying them with rpm-ostree.

“Come on, Valve. Do something!”

From Merriam-Webster:

especially : widely and unfavorably known

I believe “notorious” is used in negative contexts, and was curious why Switzerland being respectful of privacy would be a bad thing.

Why “notoriously” though?

It is great. I have been using Linux for about three years and majority of that was with KDE Plasma and its Wayland session. Most of that time was with Arch and Fedora and it was all smooth sailing.

It was faster and smoother than GNOME Shell, Cinnamon or any other desktop I have tried.

It may have slightly more bugs compared to GNOME Shell due to sheer amount of features it has.

As others have mentioned, you might have a hardware issue that coincidentally pops up with Plasma.

Fedora version has been packaged by Fedora Linux developers, while the other is published by LibreOffice developers themselves. The former may be only slightly out of date. Choose whichever one you feel comfortable with.

Kind of. Atomic versions of Fedora are designed to be set it and forget it kind of distro. New releases can cause issues with third party packages.

• dnf-automatic looks a like a package designed for non-Atomic versions of Fedora.
• libreoffice is available as a flatpak. You should avoid layering packages as much as possible.
• A VPN app makes sense to have layered. I assume it comes from a third-party repository added to /etc/yum.repos.d. It is possible this package does not support Fedora 42 yet. You can try removing it to see if the update succeeds.
• rpmfusion is a repository providing packages that often cannot be pre-installed due to some legal reasons. Unless you need/installed a package from there, uninstall it.

Do you have any layered packages? Verify with

~$ rpm-ostree status

Flatpak applications run in a sandboxed environment with limited permissions. Steam, being a proprietary app, was never made with flatpak sandboxing in mind, so you need to poke holes in it’s sandbox for it if you want it to see your files. Most people do not store their games in a separate location, so the default is pretty constrained.

Applications can have sandbox holes by default. Just checked Heroic’s permissions and it can see flatpak Steam’s directories. I don’t know what might have went wrong for you.

What problems did you have? I have been using Steam and Heroic as flatpaks for a long time, and never had any issues.

That must Gear Lever, pre-installed. Pretty neat program.