Fedora is generally pretty good

That’s exactly what I was thinking lol. There are debian based immutable systems that would be great for this setup

If it’s a filesystem, it can be backed up using BorgBackup. There are a few different clients but I personally use Vorta on Linux.

KDE Plasma does.

I’ll look into it

Yes. Unfortunately I’m on a laptop so I can’t just keep a high-speed secondary SSD plugged in at all times. If I knew the specific file that’s being pulled I could probably sort out some ramfs stuff but I’ve never done that before.

Is this gonna fix the stuttering when I open the overview?

Welcome to the club! I hope you find Mint to your liking!

I hope you have backups, man.

NICE

Boy do I have news for you…

Like others have said, definitely try a few distributions out via USB before committing. Also, you can dm me if you need help beyond what you find online.

Good luck, and have fun!

I see. Yeah there’s definitely a lot of options especially if you’re willing to block stuff at the network level.

If I may ask, why is your wife not a fan of the idea?

You didn’t. It’s just not the right community.

This is not the right place to ask stuff buddy

Shattered Pixel Dungeon

+1 for Fedora Silverblue (and, by extension, the other atomic desktops)! I’ve been using Kinoite for a few months now and it might be the easiest time I’ve had on a distro yet.

If you’re asking this question at all, I’d say you’re probably not ready for a minimal installation without a desktop environment but it’s totally possible.

I’d recommend just going with a normal distro and installing a desktop environment from the get-go as that will be the easiest way to get Linux set up.

I’m currently trying out openmediavault on an old laptop and if that’s not markedly easier to use than Debian then I’ll try Cockpit.