Both work. But for desktop use I recommend VirtualBox.
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This does not mean that you won't have troubles because of new software bugs or incompatibilities with old configs.
You can create a shortcut for each firefox profile. This won't give you an isolation like VM or container but similar to portable apps while consume less RAM.
Use vanilla Debian. It is well suited for that purposes and it is great in terms of long time support: stable distro updates almost never break anything and upgrading to new release is possible and relatively simple. Don't listen to those recommending Arch or Fedora, upgrading them is a pain especially when you have to support many servers.
If you want something more lightweight, you may try Alpine. It is also a distro of choice for docker containers. However I'd prefer Debian for the host.
That's correct answer. If you did not write anything in the space you freed (i.e. did not create a partition there AND format it), your data is not damaged.
It is.
Don't use sudo $EDITOR, use sudoedit.
I agree that autocrap is the worst build system in use now. However writing plain Makefiles is not an option for projects that are more complex than hello world. It is very difficult to write them portably (between various OSes, compilers and make implementations) and to support cross compiling. That's why developers used to write configure scripts that evolved to autocrap.
Happily we have better alternatives like cmake and meson (I personally prefer cmake and don't like meson, but it is also a good build system solving the complexity problem).
There is a browser working natively in any system. I don't see any point in bundling a web app together with a browser and calling it a "native" app. The only difference is that you have no address bar in that case.
Qt and Electron are different technologies
Yes.
that achieve somewhat different goals
No.
Alternative for what? I never used electron apps and I don't see any reason for that. If you are a developer, try Qt.
If you want to control users, don't give them admin privileges.
Most of things you enumerated solve windows specific problems and therefore have no analogs in other OSes.