Well, the summary pasted in the post mentions “VM” about a dozen times

I’d go with symlinks, so both you and software not strictly following standards know where to put and find stuff.

Potentially the most valuable single source of information on the internet.

I beg to differ, there’s Wikipedia

Not this again… 🙄

If you are using Firefox, check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/ You can block certain domains from your search results, works great for me

Ah, clearly Fedora then.