I think if we had co-ops running some of these systems it would definitely alleviate some issues

Honestly Mastodon is the closest thing atm unless you can get more people to join Friendica

Heres a programming (merge sort?) trick applied to troubleshooting GPOs: turn off half the policies in the GP, did the issue go away? if yes its in the turned off half, if no, turn off another half of the active policies, repeat

And whats great is my Brother printer provides Linux drivers, ever since I switched off of HP Printers things have been great!

Worst thing is you may have to learn downgrade commands on PopOS if a game breaks with driver updates.