Plenty of patched memory leaks in the last few years. You can pretend they dont exist.

Who watches the news these days?

No one.

The retired and thats about it

it wanted me to setup my own partitions manually

You’ve obviously never used nix, it’s GUI installer can auto configure just fine.

When your OS AND apps are declared and stateful a lot of risk and complexity is removed. Configuring is just a bad experience with poor usability and worse documentation.