And Back to Arch

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Well, it lasted 18 months, but I’ve changed Linux distro again. I really thought I had settled on Fedora KDE - I really liked it.

The whole point to running Fedora was that I didn’t have to fix much with the OS, it just worked - until it didn’t. I have two main computers, a Framework laptop, and a stationary desktop computer, and they both got the same problem at the same time - the screen turned black after login if using Wayland, and I couldn’t find a way to fix it. Xorg worked decently, but both computers required re-installation. But the the whole point of running Fedora was that I shouldn’t have to deal with things like this. It should be noted that I was still on Fedora 40, and 41 had been out for three months.

I was about to reinstall Fedora, when I figured that if a stable distribution does this, I might as well use a rolling distro. When I found out that Arch has added simple installer that helps setup btrfs, so that Snapper can be easily configured, I was sold.

At the same time I switched to Hyprland, because what’s a distro change if you don’t change your window manager? Very happy for now, but wouldn’t hold it against me to switch again in a year or two.