I’ve been using Nobara and its been awesome. I wanted a fairly standard desktop with a gaming focus and it fit the bill. It even managed to automatically get the power saving sorted for my laptop which has a nvidia GPU. Great distro.

They showed a once per year notification which reminds people they can donate.

I think the donation notification works

I thought it was good to see to be honest. None of this just conjures itself out of thin air, and it’d be worse if they had no other way to get money except sell out to some corporate entity.

Some people don’t even think about donating, not that they don’t want to but it hasn’t even occurred to them.

A gentle reminder on occasion is completely acceptable and uses no dark patterns to get you to donate.

RAM is there to be used to make things faster.