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.

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

Yup. Got the pop-up about being out of free articles. Opened a browser I never use (with no ad blocker… Cause I never use it) so I got to experience the site with ads.

The entire experience was hilariously ironic to read about service’s enshitification… While being bombarded with constant ad garbage.

Bye bye wired. That was a waste of my time.

Ok I’ll bite. What’s the software you “need”?

If I install something and it just plain doesn’t work without google play services - it gets immediately uninstalled and I find an alternative.

Install Linux and this is the way.