With gentoo and arch you are learning how linux works. Replace nixos with salt or ansible and it can even get you a job.
There are hospitals running on SAP systems. Those servers will be 99% linux based. The rest are managed by crazy people.
Every product gets ideally obsolete at some point in time. Easy way to keep demand going.
You dont need to come up with crazy conspiracy theories to prove, we already have few confirmed ones you can be invested in right now. You can start with planned obsolescence.
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