It’s not Arch. It doesn’t do things the way Arch does. It caters to people who don’t ever want to think about what kernel version they run.

That is exactly why it should do what I said, on arch I never have to think about this, on manjaro, you have to manually switch it out for no real reason.

Here’s what I consider simple. I install the distro. That’s it, I’m done. I don’t have to tinker with the kernel, or with drivers, or with anything. It just works.

Then endeavoros is simple and manjaro is absolutely not. Manjaro fails to "just work" literally constantly. Remember when linus tried to use it and a steam update uninstalled his DE? shit like this constantly happens manjaro side. It's a comedy of errors.

And yes I realize that’s complete nonsense to an Arch user, to whom tinkering with this stuff is the whole point. Which is why I keep saying, Manjaro is not Arch, stop bashing your head against the wall, you’ll only hurt yourself and hate the experience.

If you don't want to tinker at all, use fedora, it's exactly designed for your exact usecase. The problem isn't that manjaro doesn't do the things you're saying, it's that for everything you want, there is a significantly better choice than manjaro.

why would they not just use linux-lts then? that's still insanity. and eventually the LTS versions get out of date and you have the exact same problem just later, there's no need for this, just install both linux-lts and linux like arch does and it'll get out of the way, and you can easily fall back to linux-lts if something goes wrong, it's a much simpler system, versioning the packages completely defeats the purpose of updating your system. It's so much simpler than what you're describing and this is the distro that's supposed to be easier to use?

I highly recommend, as a beginner and a windows user, using fedora kinoite

It's immutable, which means you can't break the system unless you try very hard, and even then, it'll give you a list of previous setups to boot from, and updates can't break it.

It also keeps the system separate from your apps by using flatpak, the intricacies aren't really important as a beginner but basically this means you'll have an absolutely stable rock solid system that you never have to do weird maintenance for

I would highly recommend trying it out, and i'm absolutely willing to help with any issues you run into, feel free to message me on matrix @communist:mozilla.org or here.

as for your questions:

• How would I install NVIDIA drivers? https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-kinoite/troubleshooting/

^ guide is here, a few terminal commands, then you're done

• Does Wayland work with NVIDIA?

https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Wayland/Nvidia ^Yes, here's the known issues page for kde

• A lot of distros are moving to Wayland. How would I ensure I stay on an Xorg session?

You choose X11 or wayland on the login screen.

• I enjoy modding Bethesda games. Does Mod Organizer work fully on Linux?

https://github.com/Nexus-Mods/NexusMods.App

^this is actually the successor, and it works natively on linux.

I used to use mod organizer and it also works although is a bit more annoying to setup.

• I’ve had difficulties running my steam games through proton on my laptop. Does promton work with Fedora?

Yes, but I recommend installing proton ge through flatpak and setting it as the default with this command:

 flatpak install com.valvesoftware.Steam.CompatibilityTool.Proton-GE

Then go to steams settings > compatibility > enable steam play for all other titles, and run other titles with proton-ge

• With said difficulties with proton, would installing Steam as a flatpak work or will it cause issues?

That's the only way to do it on kinoite, and will not cause issues.

• Can you really not play any games with anti-cheat?

Right now as far as i'm aware only easy-anticheat works. With others you're SOL.

edit: use this apparently https://areweanticheatyet.com/

This isn't enough information to explain someones behavior and anyone that claims to understand this person without a comprehensive analysis of their childhood is lying to you, the real answer is that there will always be people that defy all logic and trying to find the reason for each individual will prove fruitless, one can only speculate without far more interaction than you will ever have as only this persons nurse/doctor, there are an unbelievably massive number of reasons (and fantasies) that end in these behaviors, the best you can do is recognize that while you don't know the reasons, this human is damaged and needs help and sympathy, and still do your best for them even if, due to their damaged psyche, they are insufferable.

Pretend ai is insignificant

They pause development of new features to focus on bugfixes.

Why do you hate wayland?

Arch has an awesome installer now so this is pretty dated.

No it is not, the simple fact that it updates the kernel with different version numbers means eventually you'll have to manually intervene to update the kernel, this has happened MANY times to the elderly people I used to give it. And that's just one of many things that manjaro has fucked up.

Just use endeavoros for that usecase. There is never a good reason to use manjaro.

Manjaro should literally never be used, it's a terrible, terrible distro that just makes arch worse and provides little to no benefit.

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

reading theory

that website does this all the time, check it again tomorrow and it'll be a vertical line again.