Yeah I started in the Red Hat 2 era, played with all the WMs and DEs, compiled my own kernel a few times. After a point I had too much going on in my life to tinker with my distro. My needs are simple, I just need a terminal and a package manager.
Snaps have issues sure, but anything is better than the dependency hell of old.
Use what works. It's really that simple.
-d if you're feeling sporty.
https://anti-planner.com/shop/the-anti-planner-how-to-get-sht-done-when-you-dont-feel-like-it/
It's meant to be used like a field guide while you're in the shit. It's broken down by section (overwhelmed, unmotivated, etc) and you flip to that section and it helps you break it down further to get going.
My server has a raid1 mdadm boot drive. And an 8 dive raid6 with zfs. It's been running for 14 years now. The only thing that I haven't replaced over it's lifetime is the chassis. In fact the proc let out the magic smoke a few weeks ago, after some new parts it's still going strong.
Ours is named Scooper. The kids picked it, and I thought it was funny.
Anytime I run into that question I tell them if I could manage FTL comms I wouldn't be working here.
Cuz it's kill dash nine. No more CPU time.