By skyforbes - Installation was fast and painless on a non-nvidia system (I am thinking of trying it out on an Nvidia one as well).
- Proprietary codecs used to be a pain in the ass and, to be fair, it still is annoying. This is one thing that would scare off any user who doesn't know why they can't play their videos or what the solution is. Thanks to this guide I was able to install Flathub and then some multimedia players from that — a neat solution!
Edit: I have added the proprietary codecs via RPMFusion as well. I recommend installing Anime4K with mpv as that supports upscaling content to 4K.
I have to say that KDE has gotten steadily better. It auto-detected and applied fractional scaling on my laptop screen and works with a mixed DPI setup (150% on 4K monitor and 125% on laptop). KDEConnect is fitted out the box and works a treat. It also has night light support for sleep (something that was missing in COSMIC). I also appreciate that Fedora supports updates-on-reboot as that was a major PITA on Manjaro (a distro I do not recommend).
Plus points for easy full disk encryption and systemd-boot.
Is KDE perfect? Maybe not, but it deals with major pain points in Linux like fractional DPI scaling. One thing I have noticed is that COSMIC desktop is a bit faster and smoother when playing video on a multi-monitor setup, but KDE is much more feature complete.
I will have to stay on it longer to give a final verdict. I did like a lot of what Pop OS was doing with their LTS base and frequent kernel updates… but I've heard a lot of good things about Fedora's stability too. I'm not going back to Arch and compiling-hell in any case.