I think it’s free but you have to buy or bring a domain

the screenshot does not look like nautilus, maybe xfce?

Macs are not really what I think of when reading "middle of the road linux"

this is the only right way

there is a base implementation basically all compositors are based on

I recently stopped switching to x11 for gaming. With most games, the performance is 5-10fps better on Wayland

The type annotations are just fancy comments. They do not do anything at runtime. If you have a function that takes an int someone can still pass in a list or anything else.

There might not be a good landlord, but there might be landlords that are not bad. My rent is low (too low and the government starts adding taxes to compensate your “non-competition”) and did not get increased in the years I have been living here. Broken things get fixed in a reasonable time, there are no scammy charges and so on.

I can confirm there are places where that is possible.

Also as long as they do not whitelist executables, you could use a portable version of a browser.