Nobara Plasma Observations
Attempting to take a screenshot on Nobara using Spectacle caused an error, which is why it's visible (faintly) in the screenshot I took from the host machine. Installation of the Plasma flavor was uneventful, and took only 11 minutes, which is much faster than it took to install the GNOME version. Why they make that silly background the default is beyond me. Other much nicer ones are available in System Settings.
A quicker installation is about the best thing I can say for this edition. Sadly, since it's my favorite DE, I've been unable to configure it, because whatever I'm trying to do, eventually the keyboard no longer inputs to the terminal. I'm not sure what causes that to happen, but I was able to create some virtual desktops and modify the bottom panel to center those. My next steps would involve modiifying /etc/fstab but I can't get that far, because I need to use micro in /etc/fstab to make some changes, but when I change back to the terminal to do that, the keyboard does nothing.
I had been able to use DNF to do a very healthy update (500+ packages) before I attempted these configurations, but I'd started Konsole and done that without closing it for any reason.
That happens whether I'm using Konsole or Terminology. In the latter case, it's an even worse problem, because I can't use Ctrl + mouse wheel to enlarge the text size to something large enough to read. However, that wouldn't really matter, because I couldn't type any commands even if I could see what I was doing. I've even rebooted, after which I can type into the terminal until the first time I close it and restart it. Then I can no longer input into it.
Maybe this is a VM thing, and this edition would install and work well on hardware. I tend to doubt that, though. If that were true, I would have expected the same thing to happen with the Nobara "Official" edition, but for all of its problems, that wasn't one of them.
