Can someone eli5 pls?

I'm using proton + Arch for over a year and I have no issues running any games (Ryzen 5 5600X, RTX 3060 Ti). Only issues I had were with anti cheat.

As an Indian I would say India lacks in physical infrastructure - roads, public transport (although this is improving rapidly), etc. However having lived in Europe I will say that the technological infrastructure is very good over here - banking and payment systems (UPI is way better than the payment systems in Europe), online services, internet quality, etc.

You might like ViMusic. It is a 3rd party client for YT music. I started using it recently and really liked the UI.

You could say Russian landing was more impactful and groundbreaking

Nextcloud by itself is pretty secure. They have a docker container to set everything up. So the weak link would be how you host it. If you host it on a vps, can the vps be trusted and if you self host it can you set the firewalls properly. Source: I'm currently setting it up on a Odroid N2+

I think you are confusing soulless with dead. It's more alive than ever yes but it has become monotonous. The original feeling of individuality of websites has been reduced to the monotonity you see when you visit different websites. For example, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram or even their federated alternatives like Mastodon and Lemmy (I haven't used Pixelfed) are designed in a similar way to that users feel familiar and don't get turned off from using the website. This is just one example I can think of now.

I would add Digilocker as well. Completed removed my need for a wallet. But it's not as great as these 2

UPI is the best mode of payment. I doubt anyone can change my mind.

Banks make the worst possible UI and justify it by saying "security" xD

Highly doubt it. If anything it'll be similar to Social Media Addiction

Wow. Never knew about these :)