You're clearly passionate about linux and have some great observations, some I've shared myself, but I'm not certain the title is super constructive 😅.
I did walk away during installation and came back to my PC having gone to hibernation, I think the timer is set to 10 or 15 minutes or something, which is ridiculous for a live environment.
I don't really recognize the other problems, but then again, I only switched to Nobara 41 this year because I knew the 570 drivers from Nvidia was finally good enough for VRR in Wayland. And I've been having a great time this last month.
Maybe earlier versions of Nobara just had teething problems? I've definitely noticed a few tweaks I had to make myself.
Nobara Project
The (unofficial) community dedicated to discussions, questions, and support of GloriousEggroll’s Nobara Project, an unofficial customization of Fedora Linux that includes both open-and-closed source software designed to make gaming and content creation quick and simple while keeping issues to a minimum. Website Discord
Yeah, title was a reference to this community being completely dead; mine was the only post here in the past 10 months, thanks for reading it! 😁
I have since gone full Arch with my gaming PC and have an easier time with EndeavourOS than Nobara. All my other machines are more than 10 years old and run Linux Mint Debian Edition. 😅
It's a shame it's dead here. Most happens on the discord as you also mentioned. Even the subreddit is kind of dead.
If I get tired of Nobara and go for an Arch distro I'll probably go with CachyOS due to recent benchmark results favoring it, but endeavour also looks good. I'm just not sure I want to remove the training wheels just yet heh.