@nixCraft I am 23 and somewhat there. I do not use Debian, as I have newer hardware that needs newer Mesa and I will be honest I do want newer Mesa as well
But because I want stable I went with OpenSUSE Slowroll. Fedora 43 is the worst fedora I used so far. (40 and 41 were great). v4l2loopback just decided to break sometimes, so I had to test updates in a VM before updating. So I decided I couldn't be asked and switched to Slowroll once I made sure my software runs on it