You are supposed to use /var/home/user instead of /home/user in your paths, scripts, etc (or /var/$HOME). Im not certain on the why but iirc its because on immutable systems only /var is writable so anything writable has to be under it.

Id say just recommend Photon. It works well on both mobile and desktop. I love voyager but two very different uis is going to confuse new users.

Its about Malibal, an infamous linux/windows hardware company. The person in the video is a KDE dev (Niccolo).

If you prefer peertube: https://tube.kockatoo.org/videos/watch/fcd71cf8-37be-41ad-ab66-bb7efaf44350

Distros ship with icons and themes system wide because apps running as root only load icons/themes that are installed system wide (you can check this by running an app as sudo).

It depends. On older devices there isn’t much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than older version.

Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was really bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the iHD intel graphics driver. But iHD is only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.

You are just being silly, there is no way its going to “seriously damage the entire Linux project”. There is nothing too technical about the whole R4L drama (esp. the recent one), its mostly political opposition to Rust from some C folks. We have seen this before in Linux (Wayland/X11, systemd/sysv, etc.).