cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42673820
Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.
Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram.


That’s fair. I had 24.04 installed because I needed a Linux de for something, and it eventually became the base of my Plex install for awhile.
I purposely did very little to it, besides periodically update it.
Almost immediately I had display issues where the monitor would shimmy back and forth about 10 pixels, rapidly. No rhyme or reason. I figured it was a Wayland thing.
Then the updater started hanging. That’s when I started learning proxmox to properly replace the whole setup.
By the time I got it moved over, you couldn’t restart the machine unattended, because it would kernel panic unless you used grub to revert to an older kernel.
I swear I didn’t tinker with this thing, it just… Died.
Of course that’s just my experience 🤷♂️ Glad things have been solid for you. I still recommend poking at atomic distros, I think they’re the future for a lot of less experienced users. It’ll be good to have knowledge of how they work.
I’ve got my very non-techy buddy running it right now. There are a couple of issues with flatpaks not having extended permissions, but otherwise, smooth sailing.