GnomeComedy

Am Linux Sysadmin, so I actually spend ALL of my work time trying to use Linux on work devices.

If you care at all about Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, yes. See the Dec 2020 announcement. https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

Tell me you don't understand what those distros are without telling me you don't understand what those distros are.

Have you searched this question online? It's been asked thousands of times. See Sander Van Vugt's books and videos. 2nd best thing to the official resources (if not better in some ways).

And use Linux for work, what's your point? You seem to imply Linux is only for personal.

Finder is crasherific.

Rocky Linux would meet all of your needs easily and give you 10 years of support.

That's not how failing hardware works. Recycle and use another piece of non failing hardware.

Please just nail laptops and get where they are in stock and new parts keep being released before you spread yourself too thin.

Can you use snaps with autofs/NFS yet?

I can only imagine what that much RAM and a system that could hold it cost 10 years ago. Yikes.