A better way to say that (more accurate) is that abusers often learnt “how” through personal experience.

The key point is not to look at someone who has been abused and think that they are likely going to become an abuser.

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https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Manjaro:A_Different_Kind_of_Beast

Although Manjaro is Arch-based and Arch compatible, it is not Arch.

Manjaro package repository

Stable branch - There is no solid rule indicating when Stable branch is snapped from testing. It can be anything from one to four weeks…

Testing branch - Testing branch is snapped from unstable at irregular intervals - …

Unstable branch - Unstable branch is synced several times daily from Arch stable

Manjaro Unstable is Arch Stable

I would expect Steam to report Steam OS as Steam OS.

They managed to differentiate Manjaro to it’s own entry after all. It’s Arch based too.

I’m quite impressed Arch comes out on top

Mone might even had been a Cyrix too. Honestly I struggle to remember. My dad bought straight Intels and I bought the clones (cheaper) I can’t remember which one I first started on, but both got it eventually.

Complete with cow-print box?

I think my lowest was a 33 MHz 486sx (maybe DX) with 8MB of RAM.

I wouldn’t want to try it today though.

When it was first developed it was too heavyweight and too customisable. The effort needed to theme it was huge and a lot of the popular themes were poor from a UX point of view.

Still E16 was usable, and then the development of E17 started about 24 years ago. People are still on E16 you say?

The Linux Unplugged podcast did something similar to an old Arch based server. Only one year out of date, but they had a similar experience.

https://linuxunplugged.com/537

Your problem isn’t Arch. It’s the fact that the Weyland experience is still under development and so not stable release to release.

This will be true on any distro.

If your solution is to freeze your distro in a certain point in time, don’t type pacman anymore.

Depends on two things

1. What performance counters your CPU has.
2. What you consider to be a memory load.

Tools like perf on Linux can get you access to your processors performance counters and you’ll be able to see how many “events” occur while a process is running.

What’s an event? Well they can be configured to monitor all sorts of things in the CPU. Instructions executed, Interrupts, page table misses, and on some loads / stores.

Memory systems on a CPU aren’t straightforward though. They contain multiple levels of cache, each of which reduces the number of accesses which go to the next layer. So depending on which level you measure, you’ll get different numbers.

https://github.com/Umio-Yasuno/amdgpu_top

So more like a charity status?

I agree with what you’re saying, that the attack didn’t require any data breach to take place, but I do have one slightly pedantic point.

Codeberg being non-profit does not make the employees “volunteers”. They are normal employees and take a wage like working for any other company. What’s different is that any excess revenue over costs must be used to continue the company’s objectives and is not able to be taken by the company owners as profit.

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Or emacs

Network transparency

I knew as I wrote it that somebody would come along and say “Wine/Proton is not an emulator” but I didn’t want to get into the detail.

Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?

A lot of stuff runs with windows emulation as if it’s native. It’s the same method the steam deck uses and so Valve actively do work to keep it working. The main problem is games with heavy anti-cheat.

Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?

Generally, yes. I think so.

If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?

See above.

Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?

There’s .NET libraries for Linux, but things have to be recompiled to use them.

How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a “Linux Update” program like what Windows has?

The distribution maintainer will issue updates on a regular basis. Update procedure is different for different distros, but all have a push-button update scheme. It’s pretty solid these days.

How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

Keep your system up to date with security updates, and you’ll tend to be fine. Smaller user base tends to mean that there’s far less malware. Antivirus isn’t necessary.

Obviously phishing scams don’t care what OS you’re on, so mind what you click.

Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

AMD ones are very solid.

Nvidia ones can be a pain from what I hear, but I don’t buy green.

Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?

No.

That said… You can always wipe a disk when you install an OS.

And also, what distro might be best for me?

Download a few Live-USB images and try them out. You don’t need to install them to get a desktop and a browser up. You can see if there’s any compatibility issues with your hardware.

Whichever works for you, go with it.