I used Fedora KDE since 36. I love the distro, for it adapts newer standard and kernel way faster, but still remain pretty reliable for the most part.
2 days ago I thought "It has been 2 months since 38 came out, it should be pretty safe to upgrade now"...long story short, I ended up wiping my installations. (Don't worry, I did back up my shit.)
KDE just straight up broke. No app can be launched through GUI, it claimed it has no memory to do the job while task manager shows 31 GB of memory is currently free. The only fix I found was to delete .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, which just straight up undo everything I've put into the desktop...so I just decided to export my flatpak installation list and do a fresh install. It can't go wrong with a fresh install right?
Annnnnnd it doesn't load. I don't know how, but the motherboard failed to load the new OS. I did the install again and got into GRUB successfully, I have no idea why second time works.
Well, now I got back to a functioning OS, I'll just quickly update, install Nvidia driver, and install my flatpak back...WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU NEED MORE INPUT? Turns out it's an ostree bug, just downgrading would fix it, but still, wtf.
Well whatever. I'll just install Steam, preparing to play CSGO with friends later...oh my god. EVERY NON-ENGLISH CHARACTER IS NOW A TOFU. In game text do display, but the fonts are all over the place, and switch system font setting doesn't do anything. Searched a bit, turns out Fedora 38 switched the default font to Variable Font, and somehow it turns the Noto into just the To.
Installing the old font with --allow-erase fixed that. Now, since CSGO on Wayland with Nvidia has refresh rate and latency issue, I'll switched to x11 very quickly...Hello, Steam? Where are you? It still shows in the task bar, but I can't bring the window out. Luckily I can still launch the game through the taskbar. Annnd the game randomly freezes, crashes with Steam every 10 minutes. My friend lost the match due to that.
So, did I mention I wiped my installs? Yap, I did it twice, I'm now a Fedora 37 user again. There were more things broken, I Ctrl+Alt+F2 couple of times, and I don't remember why.
Just a typical day for a Linux user, I think.
I think most of my issues are Nvidia related, the only one an old laptop and mine can have in common is the font one, which can be solved by installing a package
I'll still recommend 37 over 38 at this point though
yeah i feel that - was very nervous installing the drivers for my 2070.... wouldn't even attempt with newer cards