K so I just realized they didn’t call it plasma until 2008, I first used KDE in 2005.

Plasma, been using it since I was a kid

I’m sure that’ll change.

Red hat got away with it so I imagine more companies will, google included.

Well if they move large portions of the project to closed source aosp would have to diverge if google isn’t going to give them the code.

It won’t kill it immediately but if anyone wants to keep it going it’s going to further and further diverge from real Android over time.

If you’re gonna work on it yourself I can’t really knock you there, best of luck.

Nazis like you deserve no quarter.

Bog standard arch is absolutely not what I’d recommend to a new user, maybe endeavor if they’re really asking for it, but you really should have some idea what you’re doing before using arch. Try Linux Mint or Pop OS. I’m surprised you had an issue with Ubuntu, though I haven’t used it since like 16.04 so maybe it just is a pain now.