Am Linux Sysadmin, so I actually spend ALL of my work time trying to use Linux on work devices.

If you care at all about Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, yes. See the Dec 2020 announcement. https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Tell me you don’t understand what those distros are without telling me you don’t understand what those distros are.

Have you searched this question online? It’s been asked thousands of times. See Sander Van Vugt’s books and videos. 2nd best thing to the official resources (if not better in some ways).

And use Linux for work, what’s your point? You seem to imply Linux is only for personal.

Finder is crasherific.

Rocky Linux would meet all of your needs easily and give you 10 years of support.

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That’s not how failing hardware works. Recycle and use another piece of non failing hardware.

Please just nail laptops and get where they are in stock and new parts keep being released before you spread yourself too thin.

Can you use snaps with autofs/NFS yet?

I can only imagine what that much RAM and a system that could hold it cost 10 years ago. Yikes.

A post like this doesn’t do anything towards fixing those bugs. I bet a soda you didn’t file a single bug report.

That’s the minimum first step if you want to contribute to the improvement of those issues.

I don’t see how that’s true. The main point of AppImage is it ‘just works’ on any distro. If you have one primary place to distribute them to any distro - it’s still meeting AppImage’s vision.

So what’s the ‘best’ way now?

I run RHEL on my personal desktop and laptop. Why? Because I use it at work and the more I use it the better I understand it. This benefits me both at home and at work. I’ve even built Ansible roles and playbooks in git to setup my home machines. Overkill? Sure, but I have great peace if mind if I lose a boot drive that I’ll be right back to normal quickly.

You can absolutely use an enterprise distro at home. Ignore the trolls about “It’s all too old” or “it doesn’t have X software”. I don’t care what version vim, GNOME or pretty much anything is, as long as I can open the core tools I need. For “missing” software: I’ve yet to find any software I “need” that I haven’t figured out how to install (again: Ansible-d) including Flatpak for all the normie stuff (spotify, slack, discord, etc) and I’m golden.

My $0.02

Expensive if you want 1 hoodie, plus most of us would prefer if at least some tiny portion of the money supported the project.