I’m a software developer with plenty of linux experience but I just want a distro that just works without me having to troubleshoot everything all the time. I am lazy and I just want something easy and reliable. I don’t want an update to break it. But I want the ability to customise it if I want to and the ability to install pretty much everything available easily.
Basically I want MacOS, but as Linux. I’m very hopeful that there’s something I have overlooked!
As a minimalist user I prefer to use MX for tiny/older machines, like the plethora of chromebooks now currently outside of official support that can be (mostly) softmodded to use a CFW and another OS. I have good luck with Endeavour, but as I learned debian first my first OS on a Chromebook that actually installed was MX, and it actually gave it back the originally advertised battery life, amongst regular updates and such I’d say it’s worthy of a spin for an older, lower powered machine versus something that’s kinda bloated in perspective like Ubuntu.