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I’m seconding this. Admittedly it’s anecdotal, but I’ve always had great luck with Amd chipsets and especially their graphic cards both laptops and desktops. Also, this is somewhat opposite of your question, but I’ve always had better luck matching the distro to hardware rather than the other way around. In my specific instances I’ve had good luck with Red Hat based distros for hardware support (Fedora for my personal machines, Almalinux for business); specifically when handling hardware raid controllers and dedicated tpm chips.

I’d likely use a case in this instance. I remember dropping the Pixel 5 several times for that reason.

Knowing it’s so easy to repair, do you think it’s worth bothering with a case and/or screen protector?

Have you had to replace any parts yet?

NextDNS has been excellent for me. Only “issue” I have had is that it doesn’t always play nice with wifi captive portals. I typically have to disable nextdns on my device, join, then re-enable.

If you’re looking for a challenge you could try FreeBSD. While not Linux it’s still unix like and can provide a great learning experience. I believe they have retroarch in their packages, and I’ve seen videos of people getting Steam working. They provide excellent documentation on their OS as a whole.

Do movies getting the Rifftrax treatment count? If so, then Birdemic.

Lots of great options here. Just wanted to add it may be worth using KDE if they’re transitioning from Windows. I try and get the look visually close to what they previously had so they’re not fighting against muscle memory.