PureTryOut

Not really. They are probably just missing the required entries in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. For example mine:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

The file is made by the tool xdg-user-dirs-update in my case, normally ran by a desktop environment but obviously won't be automatically ran in SwayWM.

Sure but I rather not have the SSH port open to the world, it just makes it harder for attackers to get in this way. Besides I use the VPN for more things, some self-hosted services I don't want accessible by the whole world.

I have a VPS that runs the main proxy which I can always access via a console on the website of the company I'm renting it from (Hetzner). The other machines run locally in my home so I can just plug in a cable if need be.

Alpine Linux. I started using it to dogfood my packages I was maintaining for postmarketOS but I've come to really like it. It does help that I can just fix packaging problems (or just missing packages entirely) myself.

Previously I used Gentoo which I still have a place in my heart for. If I'd ever move to anything else it would probably be Gentoo again.

Personally I made sure SSH is only accessible when connected through a VPN setup for that purpose. As in, that same machine hosts a Wireguard setup (through Tailscale) and you need to connect to that first before SSH is available. And then SSH also only accepts key-based authentication. I don't think I need more than that?

KDE Plasma also has this through kio-gdrive, it works amazingly well. I'm glad the various Linux platforms have solved that problem at least.

Pine64 is known for very shoddy software support and almost none of their devices have every bit of the hardware working on release, if any. A missing wifi driver is too be expected with them, not an exception.

Honestly, why did you expect anything different?

EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.

Lol. No, they're not. Really.

What kind of conspiracy theory is that, Microsoft really doesn't feel threatened by Linux.

Nothing in Plasma Bigscreen is specific to ARM. You just got to find a distribution that ships it for x86 or compile it yourself.

But tbf I wouldn't recommend Plasma Bigscreen, it currently has no developers and is missing a lot of polishing and general apps.

Matrix

I use VSCodium in Distrobox daily on Alpine Linux, and it works flawlessly. I don't experience the problem you encounter but I use KDE Plasma which I suppose handles it differently.

I am however looking into slowly moving over to KDE's Kate for development, my laptop really doesn't like opening multiple chrome instances for the various instances of VSCodium and then also an Android emulator on top of that.