I don't like me-too complaining, but I'm in pretty much the exact same situation: I've been running Linux since the nineties, and the last months I've been having problems with Debian that make my systems unusable and that I just don't know how to solve. Random hang-ups on right-click (KDE and DBus), screen blanking every few seconds (power saving bugs), screen corruption and windows disappearing (graphics bugs), daemons not starting because of partition layout (systemd related).
I'm actually somewhat worried about the current state (especially on the desktop). It never was a big deal to me that some flashy functionality or hardware support took longer to show up in Linux and *BSD, because once it arrived, it usually worked well and was stable. Now however there are a lot of annoying complex bugs that are hard to trace and don't seem to be actively analysed and fixed.
It's not a good sign that as a hacker I don't know where to begin to properly track some of these bugs myself, and the people who receive the bug reports don't seem to have a clue either.
I'm actually somewhat worried about the current state (especially on the desktop). It never was a big deal to me that some flashy functionality or hardware support took longer to show up in Linux and *BSD, because once it arrived, it usually worked well and was stable. Now however there are a lot of annoying complex bugs that are hard to trace and don't seem to be actively analysed and fixed.
It's not a good sign that as a hacker I don't know where to begin to properly track some of these bugs myself, and the people who receive the bug reports don't seem to have a clue either.