I think it's been…. roughly a year since I jumped into Linux, specifically Fedora Kinoite.
Overall, I like my experience.
KDE feels like home, and familiar since I got the Steam Deck.
Just about every game I've wanted to play works with little fuss.
Not having to fight against the OS to not update is so refreshing.
OnlyOffice has been a drop in replacement for all needed in an office suite.
There are some snags that I didn't like though.
It's strangely difficult to add storage devices and make them behave properly when added and remount on boot. Removeable storages mostly act fine, but persistent volumes seem to get snatched by root for some reason and require my password to mount. Adding an entry to fstab is more cumbersome than it should be, and also feels antiquated considering the rest of the UX having good GUI tooling.
Speaking of volumes…
KDE Partition Manager. The less said the better.
There's been 2 OS upgrades since I installed, and the packages get updated very quickly, but the tooling to install them (rpm-ostree) is annoying. I like being able to quick swap between OS installs or even environments, but I'm missing a lot of stuff from dnf and have to figure out how exactly the equivalent would work in rpm-os, and having to reboot just to install rpm packages sucks. Also, the recommended way to get software outside of the main repos (rpm free/non-free) doesn't tell you that it will be bound to your current OS version, and you'll have to uninstall it before your OS can upgrade to the next version.
Immutable Fedora and finicky storage also makes Steam very irritating, specifically the Flatpak version. Yes, it's not officially supported, but an auto updating software manager that also installs other software seems like a bad fit for a pinned RPM.
The Wayland session mostly works, but there's still some holes missing that need to be filled in (especially on the KDE side). The most glaring being session restore, or what happens when you reboot your computer and it reopens your windows.
Ideally they would go back to all of their places that they were.
Currently, they do not.
Kwin team, I'm begging you to get this merged for 6.6. I am so exhausted repositioning every window on every time I reboot on my OS that heavily requires rebooting.
Also, developers need to be able to position their windows. Merge ext_zones for the love of all that is good.
Also, this is somewhat unrelated but also tied into Wayland/FreeDesktop: if you're going to rearchitect the *nix desktop into a permissioned, least-priviledge, sandboxable system (good) why do you not have permission prompts at runtime that stick (bad. Very bad)? I should not have to re-confirm if I want KeepassXC to control my input so I can use AutoType every time I restart.
I also should not have to wait for FreeDesktop to fundamentally change how browsers talk to native apps just so my extensions work. Can we please try to get functional UX in this transition as soon as possible before we make such a drastic change?
Even with all that said, I would do it all over again.
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