Neovim, and ive been chipping away at learning emacs for a long time now

Echoing the other comment. Afaik unless you want to comment, everything is the same when not logged in

Look on the the arch wiki, you can tweak snapshot/cleanup frequencies, which is nice

In terms of aur clones theres some pretty young projects out there, check out MBR (makedeb repository) or Pacstall. Ive heard of them in passing but have never tried them out tho

The person who can read minds has a clear advantage because they could also see the future, no?

Ive barely used Nix, so i cant be of more help than this, but IIRC the .desktop files are created elsewhere. Like inside the nix config folder or something like that

You monster

Been using the sponsorblock fork basically since it came out and they are generally about 1 day behind on updates