I’ve never felt silicon degradation on a CPU. But I can say that I’ve had a GPU with a stable overclock for years that started getting a bit flakey and I had to go back to stock settings. Of course for GPUs there are also more frequent driver updates. Maybe that effect was due to the driver and games also trying to squeeze more out of the hardware.
That’s just a CPU with extra steps
While this is true to some extent and newer OSes often come with more resource intensive features. The OS kernels tend to stay light and backwards compatible. There are loads of modern Linux distros that will still run on a pentium 4. It would take extra optimization effort and removal of bloatware from the vendors. And this wouldn’t result in more sales. At best it gets the some brand loyalty.
External communities are just searchable, subscribable and browsable from here. Sometimes you need to change a search filter or default view from Local to All. Or is there something else you feel is missing? I think 90% of the issues people are having are UX related and not a core issue with federation or decentralization.
It works in KDE + Wayland… mostly… for applications that support it… and there was this update that ruined my color profile for a while but they fixed that now!