I've been zwifting exclusively on Linux for a few years now with this: https://github.com/netbrain/zwift
It's pretty distro agnostic. I'm using it with Podman on RHEL 9.
Still requires you to use the companion app on your phone for your Bluetooth connections, but it beats keeping a Windows machine around. Good luck!
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.
Have you searched this question online? It's been asked thousands of times. See Sander Van Vugt's books and videos. 2nd best thing to the official resources (if not better in some ways).
And use Linux for work, what's your point? You seem to imply Linux is only for personal.
Finder is crasherific.
Rocky Linux would meet all of your needs easily and give you 10 years of support.
That's not how failing hardware works. Recycle and use another piece of non failing hardware.
Please just nail laptops and get where they are in stock and new parts keep being released before you spread yourself too thin.
Reminds me of the KDE guy who quit Red Hat when they used to do exactly that (make KDE behave like GNOME) 22 years ago.
https://www.theregister.com/2002/09/26/kde_red_hat_spat_escalates/
Am Linux Sysadmin, so I actually spend ALL of my work time trying to use Linux on work devices.