you can choose your de, and with some distros (like arch) your packages don’t come preconfigured. which also makes a lot of difference.

controversial opinion: distro/software wars are good, because they make people discuss about their software, which motivates the developers. you don’t see windows software wars, because they can’t choose their de

ngl, typing paru/yay [description of repo] is faster than downloading and installing the repo. even if you install it with git, you still need to know the git link.

yes. arch is some effort to configure and get working properly, but once it works it’s so nice

(well, it was for me. I respect you if you have your own opinion and distro preferences)

what did he do?

appliences that connect to your internet are supposed to be secured, but cheap Chinese ones usually arent. this means they can easily get hacked and added to a botnet thats used for DDoS attacks. I once saw a screenshot of someone whose washing machine uploaded ~30GB of data per month.

the best thing to do against this is to just not connect them to the internet.

nope, but they do have WiFi to send analytics to the factory (and so that they can get hacked and be used for DDOS attacks)