Where are you working that your local machine is regularly exposed to malicious traffic?

You’re arguing that it’s not legitimate for someone who is doing work and running servers for free to prompt you to donate?

This is why I use a distro that doesn’t add lots of extra bullshit I don’t need

This is why I use Linux

It’s really more of a bell curve shape. If you’re not important enough you won’t get a big screen. The receptionist may only have a phone.

One of the main implementations of Python is CPython, which is written in C or C++

I think the point is, the kind of people who have “million dollar ideas” are now using LLMs instead of pestering real programmers.

If committing over the weekend is what makes the difference between committing a secret and not, that’s an issue.

Saying the chance of something going sideways is smaller than on Windows isn’t saying much. I’ll pick a distro that’s stable by default, TYVM.