I use Debian, usually stable, for many years.
I use rawtherapee, hugin, gimp, graphicsmagick, gmic command line and plugin for gimp, exiftool, and korn shell scripts that I wrote. I compiled from source a newer version of libraw than the one that comes with Debian stable and use dcraw_emu.
I also use Debian on my web server.
I do not use flatpacks or containers because I am not certain that I can secure them.
In the past, I used qemu to run a Windows virtual machine so that I could run the Canon DPP program, but that is the only Windows program I ran and I think that virtual machine is better than dual boot. Now I run Canon DPP on an iMac and use XQuartz to display the programs running on my Debian desktop. I have no desire to run commercial software other than what was included with macOS. I also have gimp on my iMac, but prefer to run it on the Debian machine. I have compiled gmic, graphicsmagick, and libraw dcraw_emu on my iMac and use them occassionally. I use exiftool on both Debian and macOS. I use korn shell as my login shell on both Debian and macOS because I have been using it as a login shell since 1987.
So far, I do not like AI noise reduction as a matter of personal preference.