The last property OS I used before Linux was OS/2 warp.

Next, Install Debian.

Bye!

It is really important that those loved ones understand your language, or else they would get annoyed.

I run Debian since 1998 and am happy.

Usually it takes me less then two weeks to get e.g. a printer to work. Your problem is not the distro but the hopping.

I can still do that, because I understood that problem when it arose.

Of course, we did. Whenever there were updates. And there were no surprises because of badly initialized services.

Seems to be sloppy engineering. We ran a huge multi site operation on Linux and did not need to.