This isn't and unsolvable problem. There are cities that have working public transport and commute is reasonable.
On the other hand, you have to put a gun on my head to make me work that far from my home (im assuming, something like an hour worth of car travel?)
CADs... we need professional, reliable CADs working on linux. Photoediting is a lost cause. (Imo, of course)
I just grew a pair of balls and installed arch exclusively for gaming. As things are now, temperature monitoring looks easier than I expected and I just tried 7 games, all working like a charm.