I imagine a contributing factor is that most people who drop dead randomly are of an age where they generally don’t drive, or don’t drive as much.

I hope you’re right.

Don’t worry, eventually there will be another USS Maine event to justify another round of imperialism. Our oligarchs wouldn’t let a good opportunity go to waste.

What about euphemisms?

“We have to cast a wide net during the study to prevent the data from being skewed”

There will always be a way to maliciously comply, it’s just a question of how much shit you’ll get for doing so.

Yes and no. The main version is forked from ubuntu, but there is also LMDE which is debian based.

A good way to keep this easy for yourself is to keep the files you actually care about like pictures, game saves, documents, etc all on a separate partition. It makes it very easy to make a backup for distro hopping.

You can nuke your OS as many times as you like, and everything will be exactly in the same place.