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End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending
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Fedora is the obvious answer for you. It's upstream from your upstream. It has the same tooling you're used to, but newer packages. A less obvious answer is to embrace the atomic/immutable future and look at Fedora Silverblue or the stuff that the Universal Blue community is putting out. I switched from Silverblue to Aurora-dx and I've been extremely happy with it.
Funny you mention that, Silver blue was the first thing I tried (because I've used fedora off and on for over a decade) and something about it just didn't work for me, but I don't remember what. Didn't try the regular version tho.
In the end, I want something I can game on and dev with (which is the easy part, since VSCodium is multiplatform). If Steam doesn't work, the install is getting torched (which is why Alma is getting the boot).
I'm a sys admin by trade, so the OS should require minimal troubleshooting because I'm sick of doing that by the end of the day.
It's a different family then what you have been playing with, but if you want "just works and not fancy" - Debian.
It won't have the latest and greatest software (security patches sure but nothing else). You trade that for stability.
That might be a good selling point of Debian, if you never try anything advanced with it. I wanted to get GPU passthrough working on Debian with qemu, and it was such a pain trying to get the packages that Debian didn't come with. Had to add new apt repositories, started messing up the boot cycle, and I eventually just gave up.