Yup, I jumped around a lot early on, but Debian was home. It’s hard to break if you follow the Debian way, and it’s definitely stable. I still use it for server and lab stuff, because I can write a doc and come back in 18 months and is still largely reproducible.

I’ve used a LOT of distros over the years, and Arch is home now (technically Cachy at the moment), but Debian is probably my second favorite. Fedora is 3rd, for user friendly polish.

It’s better than the OSS days, at least. And I dare say Pipewire is better in most situations than Alsa, can’t really speak for Jack. It’s really trying to be that unifying, centralizing force that allows us to move past the Frankenstein mess. But, well…

I believe the search term you’re looking for is ‘multi-seat’.