> if you're looking for a "just works" desktop experience.
Pretty much every popular distro has this experience nowadays. Fedora(as a sibling poster mentioned) is indeed one of them and may I add, at least, twice as stable.
Pretty much every popular distro has this experience nowadays. Fedora(as a sibling poster mentioned) is indeed one of them and may I add, at least, twice as stable.
> It also doesn't even pretend to support upgrades
Around 2011-2013, I used on my work(office) machines Ubuntu while I continued to have Fedora on my laptop.
Fedora not only did it have more recent packages, it was so much more stable than ubuntu that it was incomparable.
In general I find Ubuntu as the most unstable distro one could use :/
Also, dist upgrades are a bit unnecessary when you can have your /home in a separate partition and do a fresh install of the newer Fedora version in a couple of minutes.
This was certainly true in the past but hasn't really been the case for the last couple of years.
apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras, does it in Ubuntu.
On the other hand, although I understand your need, keeping the /home in a different partition and just installing the next Fedora release every 13 months does the job for the most part. And the installation(from a USB) is not more than 15-20 minutes.