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Do you use thermal optimizers like auto-cpufreq on your openSUSE distros? It works great with Manjaro, but I'm totally dependent on it and would be nice to have thermals handled out of the box.
Others have answered your questions well enough, but I'll take on 6. This doesn't seem to make sense to me. If you want to use rsync for backups you can just use a cron job for this. I've used rysnc for years for backups and it worked great and is still a good tool to know. But for backups I now use Borg which is much better as a backup utility and can be scripted. It's a deduplicating archive that can be encrypted which has big advantages over rsync. And there are even more backup programs that beat rsync for sure.