I got confused with CentOS changes in 2000: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/
It eroded my trust with anything Red Hat-related. And the acquisition by IBM in 2019 had already damaged its image.
Last time I tried Fedora (around last year), anything installed via the “software” app in GNOME defaulted to a flatpak install.
Thanks for the additional context. I may have misunderstood the announcement 5 years ago as I remember reacting very negatively to that news. Are they still defaulting to flatpak for new apps?
My experience with fedora was the opposite of robust. I’ve tried multiple times over the last decades, my last experience is fairly recent (a couple of years ago) but always disappointing: hardware issues, minor but annoying bugs, etc.
And KDE Plasma has always been neglected by the core team. So clearly not the right distribution for OP.
You’re looking for stability and KDE Plasma. Fedora doesn’t seem to be the right candidate.
Arch Linux (or Endeavour / Manjaro), or OpenSUSE are better candidate.
KDE Plasma with default settings as well.
I did read everything and I appreciate your writing! I might give Fedora another try at some point but I’ve stopped distro-hopping for a while now. Manjaro on my laptop for 7 years, Debian on servers, I’m a happy man.