Mostly because they're uneducated fools, that haven't any actual idea what the hell they're talking about.
Unless you're pulling sources, and building everything yourself, everything you get from most major distributions is "pre-compiled".
People hate anything new, they fear change, and they like drama, that's all it is.
Fedora Silverblue or openSUSE Aeon, I'd probably say.
The dsektop environment really doesn't have anything to do with it. That's up to the video drivers and display server, be it X11 or Wayland. I haven't any idea which desktop might offer you the best tools for configuring those things though. Just as a rough guess, I'd guess KDE Plasma, perhaps XFCE?
I'd probably drop openSUSE Tumbleweed with LXQt on it. But that's my preference for low-spec machines. There's any number of distros with "lightweight" GUI's that you can use. XFCE/MATE/LXQt probably being the ones that will give you the least headaches.
I have no idea who signs his paychecks, but no, none of the announcement about the RHEL Sources affects Fedora in any way, unless Nobara is pulling sources from RHEL (which it isn't) this doesn't affect it at all. Nobara isn't an official Fedora, or RedHat product or project.
No, nothing RedHat is doing affects Nobara. Nobara is based on Fedora, which is upstream of RedHat. Nothing is changing.
That's XMMP different thing =P
It's still around. I'm using it right now, in fact. Makes for a pretty damn good phone service as well, in conjunction with JMP
No, this changes nothing for me.
Uh. You just described Aeon and Kalpa.
Yeah, Neil Gaiman. It's supposedly a sequel, I guess, to AG, but there's not really much of a connection I'm aware of.
And yeah, Sandman was great.
I will never claim they are authentic, or even great, but I will destroy the 2 for a buck tacos.