They've let their site certificates expire a few times and told their users to set their clocks back to get around the issueand they've accidentally ddosed the aur a couple of times with their package management tools.
MyNameIsRichard
Although not my first distro, I feel a lot of nostalgia for SimplyMepis
If you keep using these tools then you get what you deserve
I started with Corel Linux, moved to Mandrake and then began an 18 year distro-hopping journey. To keep it interesting, I rolled a d100 on distrowatch.com and installed whatever I landed on. About 6 years ago I landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed and haven't hopped since if you don't count a brief dalliance with endeavour on my laptop.
KDE Plasma because I can bend it to my workflow. When I try Xfce and especially Gnome, I feel I have to bend to their workflows.
Although there is a live image to try it in a VM, but you can’t use it to install
I thought they had the net installer but I've never tried the live isos so I could be wrong.
you can still get to it by searching for it in KRunner
Windows Vista
Although I don't use them, the Jetbrains products should be near the top of the list.
Yes you can but you often see the terminal used when helping people online. This is because it works across desktop environments and mostly across distros, however it does give the impression that the terminal is needed.
Except Tumbleweed
Home directories are temporary, obviously