It doesn't deserve to be categorized as L2.
kenkenken
Microsoft is just a bug.
I would pat a cat-sized plush antlion instead.
Alarm clock sound.
No. I can't remember when Linux used to be a conservative swamp driven by pure nostalgia.
But we (will) have 'Grave of the Fireflies' at home...
Will it become as successful as Trust Social?
The state won't save you.
It is not like 'very limited'. But generally they are focused around modern Intel CPU, and can have issues on new AMD CPU. And it won't work on very old CPUs without proper virtualization features.
https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/ can hint on what Qubes will work better.
Also see the system requirements: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/system-requirements/
Probably, yes. Qubes AppVMs don't run the whole DE inside it. Also, Qubes uses automatic memory balancing for VMs, so users doesn't need to care about it much.
Sorting order preferences.
Probably they want to become a part of the Russian world one day.