It reminds me of Reddit (human solutions/ideas for random problems and interests), except the costs of storing and serving video are probably really high with a large userbase. (I wonder exactly how high, though. I’m sure it’s hard to put a single unit price per GB/hour or whatnot, but still . . .) It’s unfortunate that so many people have put so much work into sharing their knowledge but have basically experienced vendor lock-in.
Just recently I found old reddit and forum threads and a few YouTube videos that helped me and a buddy fix her car. The solution(s) was provided by just enthusiasts and random people helping others in their spare time by documenting stuff. Although there’s also a lot of unhelpful threads and videos out there too, lol.
I’ve appreciated endeavourOS’s installer and defaults. It’s Arch-based and has an option to install KDE/Plasma as the default desktop environment. I only back up my home directory, but I’m sure there’s systemwide options, like btrfs snapshots (although that’s a whole thing you’d need to test/verify). It’s not an immutable distro. And, being Arch-based, it gets frequent updates. I’ve had a handful of issues from a package being too cutting-edge, but often it gets resolved within a few days at most with an update. Never had something totally break my system that I didn’t cause myself (mostly symlink traversal). Just read up on
pacman’s flags (particularly-Rflags, like-dd,-s,-n).