I'd be happy to push work to pay for a supported Linux distro, and I have had some success before in pushing companies to choose supported open source options.

I'd be happy to push work to pay for a supported Linux distro, and I have had some success before in pushing companies to choose supported open source options. I was in fact hoping that Ubuntu would be that distro a number of years ago until they pivoted away from easy, nice, clean, just works towards halfway bad copy of OS X. Now another frustrating thing about this is that once many open source projects get to taste the sweet juice of cashflow it seems many will immediately abandon all the ideas that got me to desperately want to suppprt them and become just as hard to work with as their commercial counterparts.