I wanted a mainstream option but not Ubuntu, and one that was preferably offered with KDE Plasma pre-packaged.
So I ended up deciding between Debian and Fedora, and what tipped me to Fedora was thinking: Well SELinux sounds neat, quite close to what I learned about Mandatory Access Control in the lectures, and besides, maybe it will be useful in my work knowing one that is close to RHEL.
Now I work in a network team that has been using Debian for 30 years, lol. Kind of ironic, but I don’t regret it, now I just know both.
And fighting SELinux was kind of fun too. I modified my local policies so that systemd can run screen
because I wanted to create a Minecraft service to which I could connect as admin, even if it was started by systemd.
You’re not alone in this:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/usb-tethering-stopped-working-after-f42-update/148809
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-42-tethering-from-my-phone-stopped-working-after-upgrade-device-recognized-as-wwan/148927
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220002
https://lore.kernel.org/all/e0df2d85-1296-4317-b717-bd757e3ab928@heusel.eu/
When Debian upgrades to this kernel version you might run into the issue again. Unless there is a fix deployed before then.