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If you want "just desktop" like grandparent, you can try https://linuxmint.com/ , it's downstream from Ubuntu LTS, but with bad stuff (snap) removed: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.h...
Yeah I’m all for those distros, but as I work in security industry i kind of feel like a ‘nobody ever got fired for buying an ibm approach’ is good. If I’m hacked it’s not a good look at all, if im hacked and use an esoteric distro like gentoo, it would certainly look much, much worse. My key pain point is trust within repos, Ubuntu audit their repos as best they can (sast/sanity check) so at least there’s some secur…
Perhaps if you care about not being hacked, you could try Qubes OS, which is secirity-oriented.