That may be ab implementation detail of android auto for your car manufacturer. I never needed to sync the contacts in BMW and VW.

I had some troubles with Ford, but there It worked via USB instead of Bluetooth pairing without forced sync.

Edit: I am in Germany, so data protection laws may also be a reason why it works for me

Android auto provides notification content to the car. Also of course a virtual screen.

So, there is not much that may be an issue. And you don’t habe to share your contact data with your car if you want to do hands free calls. That’s a plus

There us so much wrong with this article. From installing a fucking browser via flatpack, over ignoring the fact that office 365 is a thing to the fact that there are alternatives to Adobe.

Sure, not everything is perfect right now, and people have to learn new stuff.

I have migrated multiple people to fedora in the last two years. And guess what, regardless of type or age of user, they had no troubles with it to this day. They use gimp, play, have browsers with password managers, and write office documents. Yes. MS office.

Articles like this are one reason why people hesitate to make the switch. Doompainting, that’s all it is.

And what the hell are you talking about vrr? Kde, sway and hyperland support it for years now under wayland. Gnome still does not have it, but that is gnome.

And if more distributions would not per default use gnome, such misconceptions wouldn’t exist in the first place.