Distro - System level stuff. A “type” of linux. Mint, Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu etc. DE (Desktop environment) - Surface level stuff, i.e. how it looks, behaves, and often what default apps you use for basic stuff like text editing. Gnome, KDE, etc.

Distros have a default DE but often provide different versions using others for people who prefer them.

You likely won’t need to interact with any of that other stuff except flatpaks. Just think of it as a form of distributing and running software.

Actually great news! Really like the feature and was consistently annoyed when you had to fall back to Google for those languages.

Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.

Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.

Jesus christ

Yup.

Sure, the long term productivity and quality takes a nosedive, but the shareholders don’t care about that as long as the numbers for the next quarter look better.