Dolphin has the information panel which is activated by pressing F11. I don't know what more mac preview does.
Using nvidia on endeavouros here with no problems. The drivers rebuild with every kernel update and it's as smooth as gravy. Before external sync was merged, they were problematic on wayland but fine on xorg.
I'm not saying I think it was malicious, just that I'd no longer assume it wasn't
Since it is open source… I guess we can rule out an intentional back door.
Well, once upon a time I would have agreed with you but the xz backdoor changed my mind on that.
Konsole, because it fits in nicely with Plasma (as you would expect) and does everything I need a terminal to do.
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.
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.
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.
Ah, so not the information panel then. I don't know of a single application that does image editing, pdf viewing, and scanning. There are applications for all three individually.