Both terrible in their own special way.

Barely.

Shutdown isn’t shutdown anymore, so it has to reboot for the updates. After the reboot, though, there’s no longer a shutdown pending.

Well, yes, but it’s also communism.

Lots of clacks, though.

Not a bad time to pick up subsistence farming if you have some land.

This is true for any OS. If it’s not working you can’t use it to look up how to fix it. That’s not unique to Linux.

Yeah, that was always a bad argument. The truth is it will always fail in the transitional step where the state owns everything. People in power do not want to give up that power, so it inevitably leads to dictatorship followed by eventual collapse.