This article was about 20 times longer than it needed to be. Here’s the ultimate point:

no amount of data can sufficiently determine spacetime’s global properties. It is likely that there are no theorems strong enough to determine whether our Universe began in a past cataclysm. The Malament-Manchak theorem shows that we can’t know how time began – or even if it began.

I don’t know man, I run Linux on all my stuff and I am lazy as shit.

I run Arch on my desktop with a 3090 and xfce (forced xorg) and have had no issues.

I run Opensuse on my laptop that gets really great battery life and isn’t even listed in the Wikis. This is my primary work laptop

I dual boot Asahi on a MBP.

I agree with the sentiment of your post being doing go balls out on a work machine but it’s not nearly as bad or unstable as you make it sound