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

Daad, please stop

DuH

in some cases I feel like Linux actually performs better than Windows on the same hardware

What are those cases?

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?

Are you kidding? Proton is much, much more than “icing on top”.

To be sure you should build processor from a scratch and then write your own compiler directly in machine 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.

Yeah, I know dangers of it, so this question for me is purely theoretical.

RAM is not meant to be wiped. It’s just we haven’t found a way to make it constant, but still as quick as it is now.

… 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.

What do you mean?

My pleasure

Exactly. There could not be true / full ownership of hardware.
And yet that’s fine for me.

Now about that:

Today you can make sure the source code is truly what you intend, by running Linux on PC and GrapheneOS on Android. You might not have the ability to audit those, but others (like me) do, and are doing so.

Even in that case you can never be sure what a compiler did with the code. You can say: go look at the code of that compiler. But then how can I be sure it’s code had been compiled without malicious modifications. And so on.

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?