These are more questions for OP. But Fedora is based on RHEL which is owned by IBM. I don’t really fault OP for wanting to avoid American products in this current era. Linux however seems more of a trans-national product.

Well I assure you Fedora is on the leftist side 😂

Bro. Framework is an American laptop.

Which is based on Fedora and OP wants avoid American ties (on an American laptop)

There is an actual reason to heat the whole space. But it depends on a number of factors including the size of the space heater, interior wall insulation, and external temp. If the exterior was -20F then using a single room space heater would not work and might be more expensive than bringing the whole floor to 58F in the long run.

The gist is your home has a thermal envelope. When you’re only heating that one room, without insulation, the heat is evacuating to neighboring rooms. So you’re still heating everything just poorly.

On top of that, a well insulated home drops heat slower than it take to heat up. If the home is built correctly all the heaters would work in tandem to bring the base temp up to a set point then shut off and allow it to slowly drop.

But again. There’s a ton of factors here (heater size and type are huge).

I thought the article would end there. It just kept goooooooooinnnnggggggg