You may want to check your facts. On Devuan daedalus (with backports) and using pipewire 0.3.85 just fine. I assume you are blaming Redhat for championing another Poettering overreach, which is probably fair, though Ubuntu being Debian based doesn't help. My experience with Devuan since 2018 has been good and it probably helps that I don't run Gnome (been using XFCE for a very long time).
For those that are interested Ark is also out on early-access on SteamOS/Linuxflavorofchoice. Though there is no mention in the article. Not too surprising...
Call bias if you want, since this company is in the nuclear business, but the details regarding the overall process are much better. This issue is a regulatory one as changing the safety system from the original design basis is a big deal. In response to the above post regarding China taking over...leave your FUD at the door.
Any installation that requires additional firmware will need to have the firmware available during installation. See the Debian wiki http://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for installation instructions. They even have a special netinst image that will pull the correct firmware.
As for LibreOffice, it is in the experimental archive and I would imagine will be in sid very soon. Of course it won't hit stable until 7.0 but most desktop users aren't going to wait that long. Especially if/when sid gets a 2.6.38 kernel with the new 200 line patch.
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.
