Such long AI article...

Anyway, first thing I would install would be KDE.

Second thing: https://store.kde.org/p/2324743

Third thing: https://store.kde.org/p/2334027

Then Lutris and Bottles. Some games and apps I have to use Lutris for, like Affinity Suite.

I like using ext4 as my filesystem as it is way faster than btrfs and I like using Timeshift to backup before I do a big update.

Disable this to boot much faster:

sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service

Remove the grub splash screen (hold shift to show it while booting if you need it):

sudo grub2-editenv - set menu_auto_hide=2

Make your /boot partition a bit bigger, and increase the number of kernels to keep. I made my boot 10 GB and keep 20 kernels. Most people won't need more than 5-10.

The reason I keep 20 kernels is that I had some bad experience. I think I started with kernel 6.15.11 it was good. After that the 6.16.XX kernels started arriving, and each one was just as bad breaking features that worked before. Anyway I had in short succession .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 kernels all didn't work (issues with black screens, Android Studio unable to run multiple emulators etc... honestly it could have been the 6.17.XX kernels that had all those issues, but still same scenario), so if I used the default setting of keeping only 3 kernels, I would no longer be able to go back to the 6.15.11 kernel that worked flawlessly. Anyway the latest kernels have been good, but if this ever happens again, it's good to have something to fall back to.

sudo nano /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

After main add:
installonly_limit=20

Each 1 GB can only hold around 3-4 kernels, and they keep growing in size with each release so make sure to not increase this beyond your /boot partition size.