What do you mean by bored¿? Because you will be similarly bored by silverblue or kinoite. They are built to be stable and somewhat boring

This is not a Linux specific issue though it’s worse on Linux because vulkan shader processing happens for almost every game. I remember people on windows complaining that The Last of Us was compiling shaders for several hours when first launched and that if shader compilation was skipped the game was laggy as hell(which is not a surprise considering how poor the game ran even after shader compilation)

The point I feel is that small phones have a small but vocal userbase and is not lucrative for smartphone manufacturers as more R&D is involved in the packaging for product which has a small audience

Yes I have seen posts about and users claim it. But I have never seen hard numbers to prove it. I searched for articles or videos in which they perform from battery tests with kde and gnome but I found absolutely nothing. I actually measured it when I was distrohopping and found no difference so I see no reason to believe those people when I have my numbers.

it looks like it HAS improved, hence my Ubuntu comment. I believe Wayland has something to do with it, too, since it scales hi res screens better than xorg

Maybe this is true. All my testing was recent because I had a new laptop and was figuring out what I wanted to install on it. Wayland version of both kde and gnome were what I use. Also I remember fractional scaling on gnome under x11 came with a warning of extra battery and CPU+GPU resource usage.

They are changing the desktop environment. While it should be updated seamlessly, I do wonder how the configuration files, gnome extensions and dependency issues will be handled when updating to cosmic. It may be beneficial to make a fresh install

Dude what are your requirements as such. Do you want to tinker or do you want a system with as low maintenance as possible at the cost of configurability¿? Are most of your games on steam¿? Is there some software you absolutely need¿? Answers to these questions will help a lot in giving you recommendations

ON GNOME (which is known to sip so much power)

Is there actual evidence to back this up¿? I have used endeavour OS, openSuse and fedora silverblue/kinoite with gnome and kde when I was distrohopping recently and I found that battery life is the same irrespective of DE. Fedora and endeavour last between 5:30 and 6 hours while openSuSe lasted around 5 hours irrespective of whether I was using kde or gnome

Is there an actual difference between those? Is one better than the other or it’s just the OS giving options?

I am not a power user so I dont know much. From what I gather l, grub is more configurable and also easier to configure but is also more likely to break. Systemd-boot on other hand is more robust from what I read but less configurable and harder to configure. You can do things like set booting into btrfs snapshot using grub that I think you can’t with systemd-boot. Again i am no expert so parts of this might be outdated or wrong. Better to ask a more experienced user

What bootloader have you choosen during install?

Which option did you select from the options in the picture (keep in mind that systemd-boot is the default in case you did not change this setting)?

Yes OP try this and report back. Might tell us if something in the windows install is broken

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd-boot#Boot_from_another_disk

It seems that systemd-boot does not autodetect the windows boot option if the files associated with windows boot are on another drive.

Edit : Though from your other comment reply I think there something broken in your windows install. You can try to fix it using a windows installation media or just reinstall windows as the other poster told.

Edit 2 : A guide specifically for EndeavourOS https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tutorial-add-a-systemd-boot-loader-menu-entry-for-a-windows-installation-using-a-separate-esp-partition/37431

This is not an attack on you or your statement. This is just a general observation I made. I have seen several people claim they left voyager because the dev has ‘left’ even though he told us he was taking a break (went on a vacation) and even though the client is actively being developed now

I like voyager on smartphones and Photon on laptops and desktops.

Sync has not received an update in more than a month and nobody complains about that.

Voyager dev takes a well deserved break and suddenly everybody bitches about it.

Why this double standard¿?

Voyager literally does not tell you what instance the community you’re viewing is on.

Yes it does. If there no @lemmy.instance attached to the community then that is because the community is on the same instance as your account.

Will I remain as the same I am in the real world person or do get to choose who I become. Because if I remain a normal human, I am pretty much fucked in the 40k universe

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If you don’t want to use a TUI or touch a terminal, try endeavoros.

Why are you recommending a terminal centric distro for someone who doesn’t want to touch the terminal. Endeavour does not even ship with discover+packagekit so he has to most things with the terminal

Having software that automatically updates itself without user consent or the ability to opt out.

Are there no settings to stop auto updates¿?

Do you get adaptive sync options in the display section of the settings (present beside the refresh rate selection option)¿?

If yes there are 3 settings - off, automatic and always. Setting it to automatic means that vrr will be used for full screen applications including XWayland applications(would have been stupid if it did not work with XWayland as almost all games run through XWayland). Off and always are self explanatory I guess