Exactly, they could be hosting their releases on whichever site they use for remote git, but they don’t know how to use git

This question gets asked every year and every time it turns out to be an OPSEC mistake instead

Hard to know for sure without knowing what exactly it is you’re trying to run, but since you’re using an AMD processor, I would guess it’s NOT a firmware/driver issue. New Intel processors would be a different story.

Even today, not every application is programmed to use multiple cores effectively, or at all. Again, we need to know what application(s) you’re running when this happens

VMWare and archive dot org are your friend

Google

following industry standards

pick one

I can name one improvement: global scaling works SO much better in Wayland

But obviously if you don’t have a high DPI monitor, this won’t matter to you