One cold argue that “desktop” is merely a kind of a service

Daad, please stop

DuH

Slower than bash? Especially in bash script where it calls other utils?

Is your system unique, though? There’s only so much of a processor architectures. And rest of differences seem to be just a fluff to me.

Because I can customize Gentoo to whatever I like

Can you customise it to support AAA videogames?

You get to actually know what code ends up in your binaries

Do you, though? Do you check e-signatures and do you look at the every row of the code?

Either way, it’s hard to have a debate with someone who is either arguing a point without understanding the other side

It’s true.

… and with high probability you will make it subpar to one maden by industry.

Don’t get me wrong, Linux sure is entertaining and powerful, but it demands you to be very very experienced with it to gain considerable profit over using proprietary stuff.

Well, swiss army knifes work… really bad in comparison with specialised tools.

By my question I mean:
Any hardware is made by some other people. Any hardware is work under a firmware, made by other people.

All that is a) regulated by licenses b) never can be trusted fully to work as you think it should work. Even if it based on open source - due to the “problem of untampered compiler”.

If you have no total control over your hardware, can you say you truly own it?
What percent of control is acceptable? How to measure it?

Do you have any plans to share your schoolwork with… well, school?

Can you truly own any hardware, though?

Because you have forgotten sudo

Or, possibly, that? Who knows.