No Probs. I’m happy to help.

Yeah, you will need to install the X11 session as detailed in the news page I linked. To summarise sudo pacman -Syu plasma-x11-session

I was hoping you had f-6 which was causing all sorts of problems for amd and intel users but you have f-9 which purports to fix them all. The next question is are you using Plasma with X11? If you are, the have a look at https://archlinux.org/news/plasma-640-will-need-manual-intervention-if-you-are-on-x11/

What does pacman -Qs linux-firmware show?

I consider updating my docker containers part of updating my dev environment, which is on a different schedule to my system updates. I use a function for updating them.

I wouldn’t have thought so. You have only changed the appearance, it is still fully there.

Why install another bit of software when a simple alias will do the job nicely?

a linux version of chkdsk

Maybe so they can check their NTFS drives without rebooting to Windows. If it checks Linux file systems, we have fsck for that.

Ah, so not the information panel then. I don’t know of a single application that does image editing, pdf viewing, and scanning. There are applications for all three individually.

Dolphin has the information panel which is activated by pressing F11. I don’t know what more mac preview does.

Using nvidia on endeavouros here with no problems. The drivers rebuild with every kernel update and it’s as smooth as gravy. Before external sync was merged, they were problematic on wayland but fine on xorg.

I’m not saying I think it was malicious, just that I’d no longer assume it wasn’t

Since it is open source… I guess we can rule out an intentional back door.

Well, once upon a time I would have agreed with you but the xz backdoor changed my mind on that.

Found the Java programmer…

Konsole, because it fits in nicely with Plasma (as you would expect) and does everything I need a terminal to do.

That’s not true anymore, there’s distros like Alpine which are not built using gnu tools.