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Cake day: January 29th, 2024

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  • I’m sure I’ll get shouted down for this suggestion by the haters, but I’m going to make it anyway because it’s actually really good:

    Use an Ubuntu LTS flavour like Kubuntu. Then, add flatpak and for apps you want to keep up to date, install either the flatpak or the snap, depending on the particular app. In my personal experience, sometimes the flatpak is better and sometimes the snap is better. (I would add Nix to the mix, but I wouldn’t call it particularly easy for beginners.)

    This gets you:

    1. A reliable Debian-like base that you only have to upgrade to new releases every 2 years
    2. Up-to-date apps, including confinement for those apps
    3. New kernels every 6 months (if you choose - you don’t have to, though)