Monday's I merge last week's snapshot, take a new one, and run all my updates. Then I do my dev work in my VM. Before I head out on trips, I just ship the entire machine over the network to my MacBook Pro.
This is mostly because have you literally ever tried to install any Linux on laptops? It's always a Russian roulette with those $+#&ing Broadcom wireless chipsets. >.<
So you're not hallucinating. Linux as a desktop/laptop had a sweet spot from like...2012-ish till 2016. Then 802.11ac went mainstream so Broadcom released new chipsets and graphics cards had a whole thing with new drivers and Ubuntu's packagers (the people) lost their mind or something.
Nothing feels right, at least in Ubuntu/Arch land right now.
