CarrotsHaveEars

They should at least have tried one of them and tell people what they don’t like about it. But no, just a prompt-like question: Summarise XYZ, with pros and cons and tables and citations and screenshots.

Because this question is asked 100 times per month, every month. Not just here. One can literally search and get a much better answered already post.

Does the major version number (4.x vs 5.x) mean anything?

No. The major version number is incremented when the number after the dot starts looking “too big.” There is literally no other reason.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Also,

Does the odd-even number still mean anything?

A long time ago Linux used a system where odd numbers after the first dot indicated pre-release, development kernels (e.g. 2.1, 2.3, 2.5). This scheme was abandoned after the release of kernel 2.6 and these days pre-release kernels are indicated with “-rc”.

OP’s “Arch Linux” link points to the install script, not the operating system Arch Linux.

vlc has a command line mode, cvlc. It’s not great TUI program but works.

Not true. KDE is on Devuan.

https://nosystemd.org/