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Safe in what sense?

As someone who's been daily running it since 2008, I'm gonna say yes anyway though. It's secure (one definition of safe) and no more likely to eat your data than any other OS. Still back things up though, hardware failures happen.

What to config? Nothing. Don't touch shit if you don't know what you're doing. That's the secret to having a stable system, not messing with it.

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This, exactly. I tend to run into a lot of problems, but that is mostly because I tend to tinker with it in non-standard ways (hard to be surprised about your computer no longer booting when you intentionally tried to change the encryption setup). However, if you install a distro closest to your use-case and and then stick with just general applications (i.e. the kind you can get from Flatpak), you should not run into issues.

Of course, some things will randomly break unexpectedly, but you get that with Windows and MacOS, too.

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