As dose most PC over clocking practically. It is just allowing chips to run at higher temps by removing the limitations on power designed to keep them managed.

Mobiles may be more strict. Due to battery life. But all over locking is considering the compremises and adjusting the priority.

With smart phones. The compromise is normally battery life rather then heat.

Desktops it’s adding extra cooling and shortening the design lifetime of chips in exchange for Greater CPU cycles.

You may be correct. I’m on 12 but it’s been a while since I installed.

Debian has some maintenance. But if you think windows doesn’t. Your already having issue.

But Debian is one of the most documented distros. If your having an issue. Odd are multiple people have documented how to resolve it.

Linux as a whole. Requires you to have a basic understanding, of what and why you are doing things. If not you will have a bad time.

Debians biggest issue. Is the default 0 non free firmware and software. This means some drivers etc are not going to install automatically.

So for any new install. Unless you have an entirely open system. You will need to manually edit the source files. And install extra packages.

If you have Nvidia this is a big issue. Bit well documented.

The big issue is when a new version comes out. If things change dramatically. Their is a delay in that clear documentation. This continues through their testing to stable releases.

But they are excellent at ensuring security releases continue well beyond the upgrade. Years usually.

Yep millions of us.

Most commonly due to stability.

Long term. It took effort and understanding to add newer versions of programs to it. Those of us with these skills managed. But it put off a lot of we want/need the latest without effort folks.

Over the last 10 years. Flat pack or appimage have come far enough. It is rare if ever I need to build any software I don’t want to.

Or just refusing to run servers in California. Much like the US DRM encryption restrictions of the 90s. Where the whole Linux community just had distributions required parts of the download to happen in non US servers.

A single, (although big and very active in Linux) state, will always have more limitations then a nation. The issue comes if it becomes US national. And then the US starts pushing other nations to sign agreements.

Given at some point trumps harm to all international treaties will likely be repaired. Their may come a huge opportunity for US politicians to renegotiate international treaties.

Assuming trust is ever returned.