I self-hosted my email for several years. It was fairly easy, asides from some HTTPS cert issues that I had to correct (and took ages to propagate). But I switched away - I don’t have the expertise to ensure it was safe and secure.

Cinnamon I’ve found to be buggy too. Panel and wallpaper glitches, black screens on wakeup, to name a few.

You’re making assumptions. I’ve used GNOME since 2008, with extensive use of KDE and Cinnamon too in later years. I’ve used other DEs such as XFCE for niche applications. KDE - for me - has always been buggy despite being the most feature rich. This is just my experience. You don’t have to trust me.

Edit: Currently daily driving COSMIC. It was a little rough in the Alpha stages but it’s now very stable for me.

Unfortunately, KDE is quantity over quality. I like the look and feel for the most part, but out of all the mainstream DEs, I’d say it’s the buggiest. GNOME with too many extensions is absolutely less stable, but vanilla KDE is embarrassing for stability, even on Linux Approved hardware.

It’s hard enough getting legit software in general to work on Linux. Even if a virus was written for Ubuntu, it is likely not going to run on Fedora, or Arch, or even downstream/upstream versions of Ubuntu.

Edit: Although thinking about it, Linux terminal commands are pretty universal, so if you manage to execute a script or terminal command as root or sudo then I guess it could apply to multiple distros.

Right-click on the applet (where you want to middle-click), select ‘Applet preferences’ -> ‘Configure’. Change the ‘Middle click action’.