For years, I’ve gotten by with a desktop at home running Arch and a work laptop running Kubuntu. Now I want a laptop that’s not owned by my job, so that I can use a computer outside the house and not have my workplace own the IP rights of whatever I do on it. My workload is basically just going to be emacs and web browsing, so basically any distro can do it.

I’ve already got the laptop (HP Elitebook 840 G5, secondhand), but now it’s time for the distro. I don’t plan to use this laptop often, since it’ll mostly be when I travel a few times a year. I don’t want Arch, because I don’t want to install 6 months of software updates the night before a vacation and then hope that everything works.

Thus, I’m looking at Fedora Silverblue, since that can apply updates atomically on the system, and I can always roll back. I’m wondering if anyone else has good recommendations for a distro to serve my needs.

    • outbound@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      You’re right! We need more cowbell Debian. I’ve got a fever and the only prescription is Debian!

  • Bombastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Voting for debian as well. Apt upgrade never gave me any hassle when i needed to update anything in a pinch

  • Mx Phibb@reddthat.comEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I’m fond of Linux Mint: Debian Edition for most of my computers, but run Solus on my travel laptop (recent change), though both of those might be problematic for your needs. Perhaps regular Linux Mint?

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Any of the openSUSE distros should be fine. They have immutable offerings in Aeon (Gnome) and Kalpa (KDE). I can’t speak to them but I recently updated Tumbleweed after eighteen months and it was fine.

  • linuxisfun@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite, as you will reliably be able to update the system, even after half a year of not using it.

    Updates are atomic, so either an update is installed successfully or no changes to your system have been done whatsoever, there is no in-between state (i. e. broken system) possible.

  • Another Person @lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Any mainstream distro should work I feel like. I’m not familiar with Fedora Silverblue so I can’t say anything about it.

  • SALT@lemmy.my.idEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Got with Fedora, Fedora Kionite, Silverblue, anything. rpm ostree, and if you need other things, go with distrobox. RPM OS Tree will be standard near future, I think.

    But I will stick with XFCE Spin tho