Sunoc

Trisquel provides a good experience out of the box imo, as long as your hardware is supported and if you don’t mind the dated looking interface. I used it for a while on my corebooted laptop.

I didn’t used much any other “100% libre” distros. As much as I wanted to use it, I never managed to have Guix to run on that machine.

[edit:] to answer OP’s question, I would use a distro that ships with it.

Im considering an old surface go as well

Gopher it is

Make it purely functional, lisp based with reversed Polish notation and APL symboles, I dare you mf

Always love to see article of non programmer people using Linux or Emacs!

Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere

Such a great album

I would like to know too! Never saw that writing system before.

BODY once…

pfetch anyone ?

As pointed out by @themoonisacheese, immutable distros are getting some traction recently and they are good for making a system reproductible, allowing easy rollbacks, but this should not make a big difference, privacy-wise. It also add some work for configuration / learning. Here are two levels I’m thinking of from what you presented:

• You go with any stable (big fan of Debian here too) so to avoid data breaches from brand new packages (xz…), then you can compartimentize your application with Flathub and manage the rights with Flatseal. If you go with software with less telemetry (Firefox), this should be a reasonable and easy to use setup. The rest of the privacy will depend on what is going on inside of your web browser, probably.

• The next step would be something like Qudes-OS + Tor. If your workflow / usecase allows it, this should be a good step up for privacy. Your laptop seems beefy enough to handle the many VMs, and the install is easy enough imo.

Now we’re talking!

• Trisquel
• Guix
• Parabola
• Hyperbola

plugs in 2.5mm jack

Welcome to the community!

Seconding all the previous comments recommending Linux Mint: since you come from Windows, you’ll probably feel most at home there. It is also possible to do all common tasks without ever opening the terminal.

Mint should run fine on any hardware, but to be most safe, try to use something that is at least 1-2 years old and stay clear from dedicated GPU as first (in particular Nvidia).

I’d also advise that the packaging situation for distributing software in Linux rn is somewhat messy. Thankfully, multiple format (apt, Flatpak) are directly available in the Linux Mint Software Center. In case you need to use some proprietary software (Chrome, Spotify, idk), you’d probably want to go with Flatpaks.

What should I do to use shared-memory communication from user-space on an immutable system?

I’m currently running Alpine on my RPi4 as a host for some Dockers, including pi-hole and it works great! The setup is surprisingly painless and you’ll end up with some insanely fast boot time. Highly recommended !

I’ve been trying Librewolf as a Flatpak on my work machine lately and it’s going great! It’s really a no-BS Firefox + privacy settings by default; love it. But in general I keep the default Firefox that come with my distro.

This! And switching to DDG or others if TOR is needed.

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing!