the screenshot does not look like nautilus, maybe xfce?

CSAM Spam. That’s what happened. Most people thankfully only noticed the moderator posts, but those understandably don’t want to have to filter that all day long.

Macs are not really what I think of when reading “middle of the road linux”

there is a base implementation basically all compositors are based on

I recently stopped switching to x11 for gaming. With most games, the performance is 5-10fps better on Wayland