IMO the one on the right is over-sharpened, so somewhere in the middle would probably look pretty good.
The one on the left has so much noise reduction the detail is just gone, I remember that issue on my Oneplus 7 Pro, Oneplus can't seem to figure out their cameras, and their OEM camera app is awful.
Could try Fedora based like Bazzite or just regular Fedora. Obviously a sample size of 2 isn't saying much, but Bazzite is less buggy with the hardware on my HP laptop, and my destop with an Nvidia GPU.
Often the hotkeys on laptops for screen brightness, mute, etc will either not work or be wonky, on my HP Elitebook on Debian distros the brightness keys both mute the speakers instead, they work fine on Fedora though.
It's pretty easy, you can browse files in an LXC backup and restore specific parts. For VMs you can just restore the whole VM and copy out what you need.
I back up all the directories and docker-compose files using Restic (via Backrest) stored on Backblaze B2, and also the whole Docker LXC via Proxmox's backup function to a local HDD.
There's a chance some databases could be backed up in an unusable state, but I keep like 30-50 snapshots going back months, so I figure if the latest one has a bad DB backup, I could go back another day and try that one.
I also don't really have irreplaceable data stored in DBs, stuff like Immich has data in a DB that would be annoying to lose, but the photos themselves are just on the filesystem.
For testing Restic I pull a backup and just go through and check some of the important files.
Proxmox backup is really easy to test, as it just restores the whole LXC with a new ID and IP that I can check.
I would just make an IG account if it's being a large obstacle, you probably don't have to install the app as you can do most things through the web browser.
At least with ESPHome and other local-only devices they only update when you actually tell them to update.