Let's not get started with that... those same people also say "viertel nach drei" to mean 3:15 (one quarter after the "third hour" has passed), which is really confusing to the uninitiated, so "viertel vier" is preferable IMHO...
Yeah? Well, you know, thats just like uh your opinion, man.
Yes of course. The first time you try to get wireguard working you will not get it to ping the other side right away. It is a process. The next few times it'll be much quicker. Then it will keep running forever. Or maybe mine isn't working but I never noticed.
I had this wireguard setup in place long before I even ran my first docker container. It's all building on top of things already there.
I run ublock in all my browsers and devices, but other people on my network (family) don't, so pihole helps there. Its really not an either-or question, they are complementary.
Eh. It's happening already but won't be a single year. It will be a slow stream of people to either Linux or MacOS. Feature-wise the year of the Linux desktop happened last year, maybe the year before.
Normal people can't even deal with windows when it breaks - I just picked a gaming laptop up for $1000 off list because it "wouldn't boot" but just needed a reimage.
I really want to love Linux but man it's endlessly frustrating to have any guide be out of date or wrong since it's for another distro or just not have a GUI for doing things that are generally everyday. it's getting better but still way over a lot of users heads.
Maybe in the form of a chrome book Linux could shine for an average joe. We are already dealing with people who don't understand files or the desktop metaphor since they are only used to phones or tablets.
Ubuntu is already the Chromebook Linux that mostly work like a tablet (With just enough desktop metaphor to avoid being a gesture and shortcut based Apple clone).
A lot of those confusing guides don't exist for Ubuntu. They're either stuff you don't need, or stuff that you probably don't want if you're the type who likes Ubuntu.
Jetbrains Gateway offers remote editing as well. It's still Beta and certainly has some rough edges, but it works ok-ish as a daily driver and is actively developed. The last update few weeks ago even added Dev Containers support (to an extend).