I graduated software engineering and started my career 18 years ago. Full of hopes and dreams, thinking I was going to do great things.

That was not the case.

I’ve come to hate my field of work after spending so many years working for employers that didn’t give two shits about me, using technology and services developed by morally bankrupt corporations.

Now I just want it all to end. I’m thinking of making a major career switch, but I can’t find anything that pays well enough to afford both a roof over my head and food on the table and the occasional trip.

Wow. Fuck this.

I mean, you can say the same about Fedora and RedHat and OpenSUSE and SUSE, no?

I really don’t know what to do for my next desktop distro.

I don’t use my PC exclusively for gaming. So things like Bazzite or Nobara are not my jam.

Arch-based distros seem too bleeding-edge. I don’t have that much free time to troubleshoot my PC. That’s why Ubuntu was so appealing to me. It just worked! Now I feel that with the latest LTS I’m going to be trapped into Canonical’s ecosystem with Snaps or risk borking my install. I hate this idea.

I might just move to Debian Stable. I don’t mind being a big behind if it means having a rock solid system. I’m also very used to the Debian packaging system. Also there’s no company behind it that might take it in a certain direction.

Alternatively there could be OpenSUSE Tumbleweed slow roll, but apparently it doesn’t play well with NVidia graphical drivers? I’m also not used to their ecosystem at all.

Tough decisions ahead.