I can't get sound to work probably on bookworm with an pretty old (10 yrs) system. It's so confusing between pipewire, pulseaudio and alsa.

Sounds familiar

Reminds me of when I started using git lol.

How about NixOS where the OS automatically installs the correct software and chooses the right settings. Then you have the time fiddle on your config for hours 🌈

Press both

Hah. I'm sure once I read the rest of the responses I'll see the observation that 1 is just a slow route to 2

Would change distro to something easier to maintain (like Arch for example), rice the experience to the oblivion, keep it forever :3

Classic Scylla and Charybdis. Good luck on your odyssey.

por que no los dos

This is how Tumbleweed cured my distrohopping—out-of-the-box Snapper meant painless rollbacks.