I went with fedora bluefin.

It’s an atomic/immutable type OS, based on silverblue, but with a bunch of drivers and software bundled in.

Atomic is not for everyone, but I love it. I tried it on a whim when I got my framework 13 over a year ago, and it’s been on there ever since.

I’ve been using Linux on and off for a couple of decades now, mostly Ubuntu, but some others (OG DSL anyone?).

Really though I’ve never been able to ditch windows until bluefin. My problem has always been that after a year or two, my system starts to get unstable. And you can forget about complete version upgrades. Out of the question. They never fail to always fail. I just can’t stop tinkering with things.

But bluefin? It has everything I want and need in a daily driver. And it’s very nature FORCES me to not tinker with the inner gubbins. Thusly, it just works. Every day. Every update. Solid.

I use distrobox for tinkering. Or I spin up a Windows VM in proxmox if I need to get crazy. And I’ve still got a Windows computer gathering dust in the corner for when Windows on metal is required, but that’s only happened once since I started this party.

So yeah, if you haven’t given it a try, I highly recommend it.