Have you tried Bazzite or Aurora? A well-made and full-featured atomic distro is basically as easy to use and as reliable as ChromeOS, but with most of the flexibility that Linux offers.

I had Ubuntu for 8 years and it was as you describe (things broke all the time and every time I had to spend hours searching forums for arcane command lines etc). With Bazzite everything just works and nothing ever breaks. KDE with Wayland looks and feels amazing. I love love love the experience!

Do readability and maintainability not matter when AI "reads" and maintains the code? I'm pretty sure they do.

When Nadella took over from Ballmer, he steered Microsoft in a better direction for a while. But by now he's become a lot worse. The biggest software company can no longer produce good software and its products are actively hostile to users. Nadella cares only about one thing, which is shoving AI everywhere and to everyone, at any cost. The irony is that he knows nothing about AI, how to build capable models or how to build useful AI products, nor does he have people who do. AI is his Metaverse: something he's singularity focused on, to the point of neglecting everything else, without any idea what to actually do with it.

"I'm going to go with Fedora on my tower and Bazzite (or SteamOS) on my handhelds."

Why not Bazzite on both? Bazzite is a fantastic desktop OS! Easier to use than naked Fedora and virtually unbreakable.

Seriously, one random website getting less traffic means "Google is dead"? I imagine if you hit your toe, you call it "end of the world"? This sort of posts should be illegal. Flagged.