Pinephone pro and consequences for pinephone users

[ryo]

I think you guys are overreacting. This isn't Android and Windows. It's GNU/Linux. It works with a lot older devices without issues, because we are not dependent on some company for updates.

Good luck running KDE Plasma 5.whateverthecurrentminorreleasewasagain or Gnome 40 on a Intel Core 2 Duo laptop from 2010 (to make sure it's before the i3/i5/i7 era) lag-free.
Of course you can run the same distro on that machine without problems at all if you use i3 or IceWM (I did that with a laptop like that just a few days ago even), but the 2 most mainstream DE's (which you'd expect every single newcomer to use) will definitely be slow.
So no, it's not necessarily true that if it's Linux you can run the latest software on ancient hardware.

As for the update part, depends on the packages you've installed and the distro maintainer.
Manjaro is always a bit behind on Arch because they want to provide cutting edge software rather than bleeding edge, which is completely understandable from the perspective of an easy to use distro maintainer, but can also be a bit frustrating at times there's an urgent security patch.
I still remember the whole OpenSSL debacle a few years ago; Arch was already patched, Ubuntu was already patched, Debian was already patched, Fedora was already patched, but Manjaro decided to wait out a few days longer.