Why was Optane so good with random access? Why did Intel abandon the tech?

Had ome of the devs visit my office for wrok related business, gta6 is defo releasing this year, i asked them if they was working on another red dead… he said hes not aloud to comment… whatever that means

Greetings, i noticed Linux is the most popular OS by a majority amount. Which Linux OS is probably the most used and why is this? Is Linux prefered to host ZFS Samba shares rather than tailored OS’s like Unraid, Trunas, OMV?