Cinnamon (Mint’s DE) I think

Just to chime in, since a lot of people are recommending Thunderbird as an email client. I would rather check out Betterbird. It’s just smoother with more bug fixes which has not been prioritized in Thunderbird.

Ymmv though. Everyone seems to love Tumbleweed except me, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

These are just the distros I have experience using. I have also distro jumped a lot, so I’ve tried a bunch more than these, but not enough to have a very good opinion about them

A bit late to the party here. These are my two cents based on my own experiences

Mint:

I’m currently running Mint on my work laptop. It’s rock solid, never had any problems. Apt is good, Flatpak and Brew had everything else I needed. I love Cinnamon and I like that minimal tinkering is needed.

Bazzite:

I have a big gaming laptop running Bazzite. I mostly use it to stream games to my shitty small laptop to have a poor-man’s Steam Deck. I am really impressed! Everything was just setup and working out of the box. I like the immutable concept. Everything is running in Flatpak and Brew. I can add Distrobox if anything else is needed. And rpm-ostree if I really need a program running “on the system”. Haven’t bothered tinkering with anything (other than changing wallpaper) because I liked it out of the box. One problem is documentation. There’s just so much documentation written for non-immutable distros which won’t work, since immutable distros works differently.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed:

I have a small 11" Chromebook with touch screen. ChromeOS was EOL on it, and Tumbleweed and Arch were the only viable option. Went with Tumbleweed just to check it out. I’m not impressed. I hate the package manager, and the settings are all over the place. I don’t really see the appeal and I much prefer EndeavourOS. With that said, it works. So I haven’t bother changing distro. Everyone seems to love it, but I don’t get the hype. Probably a me-problem.

EndeavourOS

It’s baby’s first Arch. It’s just Arch with sane defaults and everything set up for you. I love aur and I love that any program you make think of is just running on Arch. Endless possibilities for tinkering. I loved it, but not currently running it. I do wish I had it on my Chromebook but I haven’t bothered with the jump. I have broken it a couple of times. 100% my fault messing around with stuff I shouldn’t have messed with. But it was never that hard to fix. And if you don’t do stupid shit, it won’t be a problem.

Debian

Running it on my home server. Rock solid stuff. Great for running a server that doesn’t require bleeding edge and which is just super solid and extremely well documented.

Manjaro:

Stay the fuck away from that stupid shit distro. It almost bricked my laptop and required tons of work to get back up and running. They do stupid shit and the way they hold back packages is just stupid. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Just go with EndeavourOS or Geruda or something.

Ubuntu

No. Just run Mint

NixOS

Really really cool, but you need a bachelor’s in Linux and a lot of time to really reap the benefits of it. Shit documentation.

Ahh my bad, didn’t think of that, but of course it doesn’t.

https://leta.mullvad.net/

A proxy for Google search run by Mullvad

I don’t have an answer but I am piggybacking off your question:

Is it possible to flash another OS on the last gen Chromecast? Considering what’s happening to the gen 2, I don’t see a very bright future for my Chromecast.

What is the benefit of running it in Proxmox rather than just containers on bare metal?

alias yabbadabbasudo=sudo

It’s impractical and I often forget that I have it. But the times I remember I laugh a bit

Hmm, might be. Up again now anyways, lasted for ~5 minutes

Codeberg seems to be down atm. I hope they aren’t under an even bigger attack

Nice! Just gonna piggyback and recommend https://tldr.sh/ too. I use it all the time!

It’s the same with leftists in my experience. The fighting is worst online

I have been repurposing my EOL Chromebook, and I don’t think they will ever be able to compete with ThinkPads. I like my Chromebook since it is so damn small, however the specs are really bad. And everything is soldered right on the motherboard. So I have 64GB storage (plus an SD-card) and 4GB RAM. I have enabled ZRAM so the CPU is helping out a bit. But even so I struggle with the memory. Browsers are such memory hogs!

Yeah, I noticed. I miss not having a declarative system, but agree on Nix. I don’t have the time to learn all that. I think it seemed neat to use yaml, since it is pretty straight forward

That sounds like BlendOS. I haven’t tried either of them, but sounds really cool!

Not a bad idea! Not sure how well it is supported though

It’s very interesting! I just find it weird that I’ve never heard of it. I will have it in the back of my head in case I need to do a full 360 and go back to ChromeOS

Good to know! Have you tried any other distros?

I thought so too, but then my Chrome stopped updating and all my extensions started breaking one by one. Never heard of ChromeOS Flex, will check out!