(Home) batteries are quickly becoming cheap and per-hour electricity rates can be implemented at a reasonable time. With that, the grid owner can influence the grid stability without having to build capacity or generation itself.
With debian and KDE (both personal preference), but no snap or flatpak, it works wonderfully. Power/sleep-management has become better than a default windows install. All hardware, including the fingerprint sensor, just works.
My NAS does btrfs snapshotting of the Synchthing folder.
So I have an up-to-date backup of my phone pictures, laptop files and can go back in time if I accidentally delete something.
Also, it is seen as a test by itself: Are you capable to take your responsibility and do your work?
This is a quite valuable lesson by itself. Most people need a few months to learn it (partying is fun, but doesn't get you a degree), some don't and indeed drop out.