You’re doing it right. Don’t desperate, mate. Most companies are permanently understaffed but management and hr drag their feet as much as they can, and then it’s all a rush. So at the end it’s a lottery. It sounds like you have quite the portfolio too so put it onto as many faces as you can and the calls and mails will come (and the spam! Use an alias, or a specific address unless you trust they’re not gonna sell it). You’ve got this.
I use Fedora and sometimes Debian (Debian is love! 🌀❤️), and brew my coffee in a moka pot.