BTFS snapshots are such a huge improvement and a live saver if you like to tinker on your system. Also great for backups, which you should make. Use snapper and similar tools.

I’d only recommend ext* for spinning hard drives. For ancient slow machines, go with XFS or ReiserFS (if any distro still supports that even).

The Linux kernel is a tangled mess and not an alternative to the well designed HURD micro kernel.

Is this a take from the 1980s?

Of course cli and TUIs are great. However they aren’t as discoverable and harder to learn than a nice GUI.

Is vim or eMacs great? Sure, but so is Visual Code for other reasons.

cli and TUI suck at drag and drop and copy and paste between applications.