If your Synology NAS supports ssh, might want to check to see if you can use sshfs. I used to use Samba and NFS on my Debian home server, but switched to sshfs a few months ago. File transfers seem a little quicker than with Samba.
Iirc they said around the time of the next LTS release. So 24.04.
One really cool thing that you can do with the recovery partition is to reinstall but keep everything in your home directory intact. I think it's called refresh installation. Very handy to recover from a bad situation without much hassle. Imo more distros should have a recovery partition.
Pop OS is not a bad choice. Only thing about it is the version of Gnome it has is a little old and it will stay that way until they come out with their own Rust-based DE.
You are basing those assumptions on what? Popularity-contest on Debian does not cause any issues.
Some are making the case that Fedora’s new telemetry integration isn’t like the bad telemetry like Google and others, it is ‘anonymised.’ Every corporation says this before they remove the username from the data collected and keep the unique user id. I don’t trust Red Hat…and now with this latest reveal, Fedora either. And privacy is all about trust.
Please stop with the FUD about the Fedora telemetry. It is opt-in and is no different than popularity-contest on Debian.