One of the incredibly cool things about Bazzite (and all of the Silverblue based OSs) you can very easily rebased to another flavor. The only caveat is that apparently the Gnome flavors will cause issues with the KDE flavors or something. It's a Gnome issue from my understanding.
Rebasing takes a few minutes and a reboot, and you can easily revert it.
Debian sounds like a great fit for you. But it's good to know that Universal Blue has a lot of tools available for installing and tinkering that many just don't know about. They are extremely powerful OSs.
Who knows. People are passionate about Linux. And downvoting takes no effort. And people downvote stuff randomly.
And Homebrew. I'm a developer and I've done all my work just with Homebrew.
You have to reboot machines to run secure kernel code. High uptime means running outdated, vulnerable system code.
Did you ever try using Distrobox? That's the recommended way if installing random apps.
These distros are great for beginners or less technically savvy. They're really just harder for people who have been using Linux forever and are very accustomed to the old ways.
Immutable are the ultimate tinkerer's distros. It's just a different way of tinkering. True tinkering in immutable means creating your own image from the base image and that allows you to add or remove packages, change configs, services, etc.
Example: you create your own image. You decide you want to try something, but you're being cautious. So you create a new image based on your first with your changes. You try it out and you don't like it or it doesn't work for some reason, you can just revert back to you other image.
Another thing worth mentioning, with these distros, you can switch between images at will. I'm new to Linux as my daily driver desktop OS, and I've rebased three times. It's really cool to be able to do that.
You can install packages in immutable distros. It's just not as easy and recommended as a last resort.
With Universal Blue (Bazzite, Bluefin, Aurora) you can install packages with "layering". It's basically modifying the image by adding packages on top of what is shipped by the distro, and those packages get added each time the image is updated.
The better, more involved solution is to create your own image from the base image. That gives you a lot more control. You can even remove packages from the base image.
I wonder if any incentives have changed in 35 years...
Nope, it's Gen Y/Z who are the problem.
15 inches would've been a big, luxurious monitor back then.
You deserve this for using speaker in an office.