I don't wanna be that guy, but if you're going to use Linux for serious work, and you have anything but the most vanilla hardware, you need to try Arch at some point.
I didn't buy the Arch Bro b.s. for a long time. Ran Gentoo for a good bit. But, it's just better. It's your machine, you get to run it your way, and get the best firmware, etc..
I’m trying xerolinux now…
Let me know how that goes. I'm not really into "rices" and use Plasma stock with widgets, etc for the functionality I need.
From a driver and firmware end, you should be able to get the latest and greatest since it's Arch based. My ThinkPad P1 gen 5 doesn't play nicely without the latest firmware, which is how I got started on my Arch journey.
If you have trouble, hit me up and I'll help if it's in my knowledge base.
Xerolinux is pretty. A lot of friendly aliases in .bashrc. Modern “pretty” versions of things like cat, although I’m not so sure how well that will play with shell scripts and pipes.
I’ve got some work to do to get blockstream satellite installed on this unsupported distro though…might have to wait a few weeks to get time to do it.
