It was extremely close between the 6700xt and the A770 for me when I was picking my GPU for my virtualized windows gaming PC. The only reason I went with the 6700xt was because I knew it'd work. I think if Intel sticks this out and actually releases some new cards, they could easily become a decent competitor to AMD and Nvidia for cards the majority of people actually buy. I know in myself part of the reason I didn't pick Intel this time around was fear that they'd just give up and leave me with an abandoned card.
As someone who was pretty die hard Ubuntu since 08.04, around 22.04 ish I started to get rather irritated with the direction Canonical was pulling in. I tried Fedora, Arch, and Opensuse Tumbleweed, and ended up settling on Tumbleweed. It's kinda nice being so close to the bleeding edge, but without some of the annoyances of Arch. I've stuck with Tumbleweed for around 8 months now and don't think I'll be going anywhere for a while.
Server stuff - I used to run Ubuntu server with docker, but these days I'm running Proxmox and am using Alpine as the OS for the VMs/LXC containers it hosts.