Comment by jjaksic

Have you tried Bazzite or Aurora? A well-made and full-featured atomic distro is basically as easy to use and as reliable as ChromeOS, but with most of the flexibility that Linux offers.

I had Ubuntu for 8 years and it was as you describe (things broke all the time and every time I had to spend hours searching forums for arcane command lines etc). With Bazzite everything just works and nothing ever breaks. KDE with Wayland looks and feels amazing. I love love love the experience!