First, thanks for reading and commenting.

I would appreciate any\all feedback from all of you, if there are recommendations for a stable, consistent setup - both hardware and OS. Or comments that I am asking for something unrealistic. Either a desktop or a laptop connected to a docking station.

a. I would like to suspend the machine at night and continue working in the morning.
b. To be able to support three monitors. c. VM app to test stuff - virt network to test varied apps\code on different clients and servers. d. Libre Office to create docs and presentations. e. LTS.

Currently using a System 76 laptop w\ Pop OS and a docking station. The first laptop was warrantied to poor construction (keyboard and bezel weren’t flush, they separated and you could see the motherboard…) and now the second one is having the same issue - let alone sporadically working with suspend or the docking station (will have to reconnect the docking station, most times rebooting).

I’ve distro hopped for years, so I would consider myself a beginner\intermediate user. I am more than willing to pay\donate for consistency, and right now that leans towards MS and Windows (sigh).

What are corporate users using? I think that is my standard, as I’ve worked at places that were primarily windows shops, And it is pretty easy to come in in the morning and resume from yesterday. “RH for workstations” ?

Thank you!!

  • @boredsquirrel
    2•11 days ago

    I think CentOS Stream, Debian or a tweaked Ubuntu LTS are good for stability and all free also as in freedom (after replacing snap with flatpak on Ubuntu).

    OpenSUSE slowroll is a good model for better tested but not randomly held back packages.

    Fedora has the older stable release, currently 39. It is more stable than the current 40.

    As a workstation Desktop I can recommend KDE Plasma, but it is not bugfree. Plasma 5 has bugs that will not be fixed, Plasma 6 has those fixed but random other bugs and random missing features.

    GNOME is unusable in many parts for me personally, but very very likely the most stable but also modern Desktop.

    COSMIC will be pretty awesome. It doesnt really have bugs for me, but simply a ton of missing things. But the way they build the project, how well everything works and implements all sorts of “we have this new shiny thing” from various DEs like KDE Plasma, is really nice.

    But that will take at least a year to be really finished.