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I was able to avoid the other issues by switching to Xubuntu (With XFCE) when Unity and Gnome 3 came out.
But Snap has finally caught up to the whole Ubuntu family, so I won't be upgrading to the latest version when the LTS runs out.

I have tried it, but it's woefully inefficient in terms of disk space, and some programs I tried in Snap format wouldn't even run. Case in point, the RTS game 0AD (Age of Empires style game) in Snap format would not launch, because somehow, it could not find the video card. Why are they rolling out a system with such major bugs?

Still considering my options but Debian or Linux Mint feel like top alternatives, especially when most software seems to maintain packages for at least Debian based distros, although I've heard good things about Arch and the AUR.

That says alot if 0AD does not run through it.
Clearly needs more development and bugs addressed.
Ive noticed that in recent years that Debian development has sped up, with major releases becoming much more frequent, im putting this down to so many popular distros all being based on Debian, and being so stable, i feel like its here to stay.
The way windows is heading, im almost at the point of switching over and just keep windows installed as a second OS just for gaming.

Hopefully the log might tell you why it drops out, and you can go from there...

They might feel reliable, until they're not. With light use they may last a long time, but everything wears out eventually. Flash memory is not an exception. That's why the warranty is not just based on time anymore, but also number of bytes written (write cycles wear out flash cells).

There will come a point in the future where the SSDs produced now will naturally reach this wear limit, and then they'll all start dropping like flies. Yes, SMART will tell you when the wear value is high but it's only an estimate based on a lab-calculated number.

SMART on a conventional HDD has more parameters it can monitor, which are pretty helpful at predicting actual wear-out issues, but SSDs have very few attributes to physically monitor, so there isn't much it can work with.

As always, backups are the only solution.

Ive never encountered any SSD with bad blocks or any significant amount if wear so far, but its entirely possible, just requires heavy use, it shows up worse on systems such as machines running CCTV cameras that keep recording over and over on the same disk.
Ive seen a few SATA disks fail, not because of wear, but simply a hardware fault of its own where the whole drive appears dead, ive had others where I was able to image the drive, but was real slow and had the occasional I/O error appear.
The wear levelling algorithms are pretty good these days and any decent drives like samsung have provisional space set aside that you can adjust yourself, but i just check my SMART readings from time to time, but im more concerned about drive failure over anything, I still keep my important data on a RAID mirror for redundancy with regular hard disks, never played around with this on NVMe drives yet.