I can think of nothing worse than having your pet project adopted by BigTech and being expected to fix bugs free of charge. I'm not even sure what the solution to that would be other than walking away from it. Thankfully, my biggest project (DF-SHOW) is niche enough to be just a personal project, but a common enough concept (a TUI file manager) that there are plenty of other, more well established, solutions available.
I wrote it for myself, but figured others can benefit from it.
Honestly, Linux Mint is probably the best option. Failing that, Fedora is another good option which is derived from Red Hat, it does things differently to Debian based systems like Mint and Ubuntu, but it's widely supported.
You'll need to iterate what you were doing when it stopped working, 99% of the time, it's down to human error. As someone once said:
"Unix [or Linux] will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn't think rope would do that, you should have read the man page."
Not banned yet, but they recently removed my API key I was using to work with sideloaded Apollo. I'm now using an alternative method again, but I wonder when they'll just end up banning all users trying to keep Apollo alive?