Linux is way easier to screw up because it gives you full freedom to do whatever you want. It is like riding a bicycle as opposed to sitting in a bus. Of course you can do a wheelie and fall, but would you rather be able to do a wheelie or sit in a generic seat.

I don’t think you understand people don’t have money to buy one computer to work, one to play, or a console to play. People are cheap that way, when it comes to food or a gaming console they choose food.

It is an open source architecture but it doesn’t prevent the OEM from adding anything to it to prevent user from doing anything on it. They can add TPM, locked bootloader with fixed signing key stored on board. They can add microprocessor inaccessible to anyone but OEM. They can add spyware, malware. All this without any need for declaring it or need to make it open source.

The only change RISC V brings is there is no need to pay for a hardware architecture, benefitting the manufacturer. Rather than bringing freedom to the user.

Not necessarily

Had a kernel update which couldn’t read a specific HDD controller chip. Since then I always install LTS version along with regular just for booting up if the kernel upgrade fails.

Other than your PC or Mac spying on you, you are in no danger.

If you can get in one.

After pandemic many people have migrated to outer parts of the city. Since WFH stopped them travelling daily to work have increased the load on an heavily burdened public transport.

There are projects to move some of the people to other modes of transport. They have their own hurdles, ageing existing infrastructure, crowded and haphazardly constructed areas, bureaucracy slowing down construction.