As someone who's been using ubuntu since warty warthog, what did you end up switching to / what are other people using these days?
I used to use ubuntu for most everything. This year I'm trying arch a la cachyos. It's actually super nice to not have to wait for hardware support and security patches. Has anything broken? Nope. In fact, things that I would just have to deal with as "teehee isn't linux quirky?" shit is mostly gone. Turns out that it really is as simple as canonical and gnome being the problem.
I use Fedora if that's helpful. Well, I've been using Bluefin for the last few months and it's certainly different.