Try linux-lts. The latest "stable" releases of the kernel (since 6.10 onwards) have felt like they weren't tested at all, major regressions in every single version. I report them, but new problems keep coming. Never seen anything like that in two decades of being a mostly/only linux user.

The lts is fine, no problems at all.

Distro matters a lot for kernel regressions.

I run arch and so I bump into those once in a blue moon but it's rare.

Debian runs older versions so you miss recent bug fixes but at the same time you should see minimal regressions. Pick your poison.

You might be extra sensitive to bugs. I'm that way too but at least I can fix them when I have the source.

I also only use a few apps (Firefox, eMacs, VLC, gimp) and i3 as my window manager. It's been a long time since I hit a bug that actually impacted usability.

I'm addicted to Gnome Fedora since Asahi gave me the option, having one button that brings up a combination of Mission Control and Spotlight has soured my on Mac OS, why are these two different actions?

I haven't had to go into the shell to change anything yet, the default files, software center all work as I expect out of the box, including mounting USB drives which has always been an annoyance to me.

Now I'm investing in learning CentOS Stream and SELinux, happy with the learning curve thus far.

> Debian is no less buggy.

On servers? How do you notice? Maybe you are doing things we don't?

I'm happy with macOS, I know what to tweak and the display support is great. Ubuntu was very bad with fractional scaling for 4k displays. Maybe skill issue but the ARM Macs are just so fast, don't want to give up on that.

the fact that you think "panels and settings" _is_ Linux tells me you dont know the basics of the OS itself. Linux is the kernel and drivers. Everything else is an application, if you don't like the UI/UX, that's between you and the FOSS maintainers, as well as your choice of interface to use. take some time to read up on the various options before you try to blame (what you think is) and entire OS.