Yeah, I agree. “Stuttering” doesn’t sound like a touchpad-specific issue. My guess is there’s something funny about Fedora, either drivers or kernel flags or default plasma settings, that just isn’t playing well with that specific device. I wouldn’t be surprised if another distro magically fixes it.

Edit: Or there’s a hardware issue. Gnome caused the device to grind to a halt?

I’m somewhere in the U.S. Our local politicians suck. I want to relocate. I supported someone last election cycle who was opposed to flock cameras, but they’ve completely fallen in lockstep with the established authoritarians since taking office. So I have been trying to avoid flock cameras on my route to work. But every time I find a minor detour, a new camera pops up. And even then, many of those detours are through residential neighborhoods, where every third person is a collaborator has a ring camera. My current route has me circling around the entire town before slipping back in on the other side. My commute has gone from ~20 minutes to ~40 minutes each way, which is just barely within my tolerance before I throw in the towel. There are several businesses I won’t even go to anymore, either because every possible route is surveilled, or because the business owners actively work against my interests (e.g. Whole Foods), which is actually good, since I find myself rabidly supporting local businesses, just as I should have been doing all along.

I mean, you don’t necessarily need a fresh Arch install; I’d wager you could just switch to Arch in place by editing your /etc/pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to Arch repos. You’d probably need to keep a Manjaro section at the bottom of pacman.conf to avoid breaking too many things at first. Is this a good idea? Probably not, but it’d be fun to try.

inv.nadeko.net isn’t terribly unreliable, but I usually eliminate most of the other instances from the libredirect list.

Hold on. I’m as much a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but can you name one OSK that supports swiping to type?

Unpopular opinion, but I actually don’t like the comparison. Not advocating violence, but if you’re going to shoot someone for political reasons, it’s not a good idea to shoot someone who can easily be turned into a martyr. This shooting seems counterproductive and, in my fallible estimation, will probably make the world slightly worse. Luigi picked a smarter target, one more likely to benefit mankind long term.

There are plenty of people whose deaths would make the world a better place, but many fewer whose murders would do the same.

I’ve never heard of librewolf preventing dark mode. Garuda’s firedragon browser was based on librewolf before switching to floorp, and it came with the darkreader extension by default.

Nah, that’s just oak. Oak floors do this sometimes.

Garuda. It’s even easier than Manjaro. The theming can be a bit much, though.

I know this is a bit of a necro-bump, but Today I Found Out just released a video answering exactly this question: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ipDdWx67H9M

KDE, because I’m too lazy to switch back to XFCE, which offered every feature I already use in KDE except without the stuttering, the bugs, and the update cycle that breaks things way, way too often on a rolling release distro.

Or openbox. My old laptop has openbox, but that’s more for screwing around with EWW than doing day-to-day things.

Technically, hippos don’t swim. They run along the ground. So if you pick a deep enough body of water, you might still have a chance.

I don’t hate flatpaks, but flatpaks require more disk space than the same apps from traditional repositories, and they only support a handful of the most common default themes. Since I only ever use older and slower computers, my disk space is limited, and I like to rice my desktop, I personally avoid them. But your use-case may differ.

This is a popular opinion outside of Lemmy. You won’t find many lowercase “l” libertarians here though.