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Certainly feels like it and I personally wouldn't buy anything from them at the moment.

Edit: would -> wouldn't

Just installing applications is pretty easy though.

***
- hosts: localhost
  become: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Install required software
      dnf:
        state: latest
        name:
          - firefox
          - telegram
          - calibre

ansible-playbook install.yml

Something like that (untested)

Please make sure to implement democracy first, we have enough issues with dictatorships and oligopolies already.

I'm not a kernel dev, but I've read often enough that there are some places where "everything is a file" somewhat breaks down on Unix. (I think /proc and some /dev)

For an "absolutely everything is a file" system have a look at plan9, it was the intended successor to Unix, but then that got popular while plan9 stayed a research project.

Are you sure you want pipewire and pulseaudio installed and trying to run?

Maybe replace pulseaudio with pipewire-pulse, unless I'm missing something from your post.

Different person, but I'll try to explain some of what I know.

Traditional Linux:

• read/write root and usr
• only one version of a program can exist*
• packages are available immediately after install
• packages are imperative (you tell it what to do, it does that)
• files swapped in place (can lead to issues like kernel modules missing or Firefox not opening new tabs until restart)

*you might have python3.8 and python3.9, but those must be created as different packages using different paths in /usr

NixOS, Guix:

• declarative package management (basically config file and exactly these packages are installed)
• usr and parts of root read-only (afaik)
• packages symlinked to usr
• multiple versions of packages kept locally (though not all active necessarily)
• will keep using old package until restart/reboot, therefore not breaking on updates. New instances of a program can use the new package
• easy to roll back due to multiple versions kept

Immutable OS (haven't seen one mentioned by OP, but it's a category):

• often imperative package management
• using snapshots or multiple root partitions for easy rollbacks
• read-only root and usr
• packages might only be available after a reboot (depends on implementation and if system packages or something else like Flatpak, which doesn't need a reboot, are used)

SerpentOS:

• experimental distro (ie stuff might change)
• imperative package manager
• packages installed to separate tree, but swapped live. Basically A/B root of an Immutable system that doesn't require a reboot (according to the explaination in the latest blog post)

Not sure why ClearLinux is on that list of special distros and I don't know half of the rest so yeah. Hope this explains some of it?

Yeah it's common. I'm not confused by it, just like a normal g more.

The Fira family has a similar fancy g for some reason

Not sure how well it works, but this already exists with mCaptcha

Where do you have to enable fractional scaling in KDE? Worked out of the box for me when I installed that recently. Sure you don't mean Gnome?

I installed a GSI fork of LineageOS. Not sure if there are any device-specific ROMs for it, haven't checked in a while.

Lenovo Pad if you order the unlocked versions from Aliexpress. Search for Xiaoxin Pad, anyone offering a global ROM version has unlocked the bootloader.