This is a nipple AND OS bitching festival now.
And fwiw the most trouble-free OS I’ve used, across a lifetime of multiple machines and systems, remains Mac. Everyone shits on it but as a tool it’s required the least amount of fussing, work, and time - that’s kinda what matters to me.
Mac’s still eaten up probably 100-200 hrs of work over my lifetime but my windows odometer is probably 3x that, linux 5 times.
I think we’re on the verge of a reliability surge for LIn though, more commercialization and companies moving to offer it in-house and expand the customer base, the fact 40-60% of working age men are sexless and underemployed bodes well for the market, too. We have time to play around with it, demand for good distros will continue to increase as privacy becomes a greater premium.