I think Nvidia drivers are the only real pain point left.
Nvidia drivers pretty much just work now, even on Wayland. On the rare occasion they don't, it can be a pita to sort out though.
The only person you're spiting is yourself.
They can be both.
It also says cake day underneath the 2 years ago, or at least I see it on the web client.
It's not the end of "it doesn't work on Wayland", just the end of an alternative that does work in such circumstances. That said, since explicit sync was merged into the Nvidia drivers, I've had no problems with Wayland / Plasma.
Probably activity monitor is counting buffers and caches which btop isn't.
With Manjaro, you can solve a lot of the problems by switching to the "unstable" repositories, which mirror the Arch repositories. It doesn't solve the problems with their processes though. There are still better Arch based distros, like EndeavourOS.
It's funny, I update Endeavour daily because there's less to go wrong at a given point
Yeah, 1.5k
Commodore VIC20 with a stonking great 5k of RAM
Dotfiles are files whose name starts with a dot. Configuration files are called dotfiles because they used to start like that and litter your home directory. These days configuration files tend to live under the .config folder. The name has stuck though.
Plasma 6 was released in Feb 2024, 6.4 is about due. I suspect 7 won't happen until Plasma and applications need to be ported to Qt 7.