And it sounds like in your case you need new and fancy, if I had to start over I would do arch

I have to use some programming tools and languages to code; installing them side by side and updating was a major hassle. Now I just have some aliases in command prompt.

Docket desktop was a major religious experience for me; much easier than before

Ever since docker became available, along with flatpak; the Linux running these became less of an issue for me

Debian was good enough for my grandfather and it’s good enough for me. Seriously, running cinnamon desktop in Debian is my best option.

I don’t need fancy, just no breaking

Plot twist: am grandfather myself

I’ve installed from steam after downloading it the deb from the website , and steam self updates. I never had issues on mint, Ubuntu or popos for years.

I really don’t know much, and anyone should take this with a grain of salt: but in my opinion any other way of installing steam on this branch of Linux is asking for trouble