I got tired of some bugs with Manjaro KDE (the most painful were frequent interruptions of wifi connection and problems with viber), so I decided to switch to Fedora using Gnome.
I like it much better at this point:
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Apple multilingual keyboard configured almost painlessly;
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For the drop-down terminal I found tilda to be a good replacement for Yakuake.
I'll post more if I encounter other important issues.
On the current machine I tried 3 OS and would rank my experience as follows: Kubuntu < Manjaro (KDE) < Fedora (GNOME). I hope to stay with Fedora until a major issue.
I like it so much even considering installing it on my old macbooks. My son installed it on his low spec machine and it works nicely as well.
- I find the GNOME-shell extension ddterm (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3780/ddterm/) to work much better than tilda.
- For CS-GO under steam I had to enable Proton in steam settings, otherwise the game is too slow and sometimes won't start at all...
UPDATE: I tried installing Fedora 37 on Macbook Air 2011, and it did not go well.. Even live usb was hanging. Therefore I downloaded Fedora 36 and it kind of worked, then I upgraded to Fedora 37 and my kernel was updated to 6.* and it is so very buggy, the system became unstable and hard froze. I was googling how to fix it, tried reinstalling broadcom-wl, but nothing helped. I guess I could have downgraded the kernel to the last working version (I think it was 5.17 or so). But I could not take it anymore and decided to try OpenSUSE Leap and it works fine, the system is stable (some programs like neovim versions are old although). The kernel version on OpenSuse is 5.14, so I guess that is why it works... To get newer apps you could use OBI/opi (https://github.com/openSUSE/opi) on openSuse.
