Linux Mint Debian Edition would be a pretty solid, pre-customized distribution.
I've had great experiences with Linux on Lenovo over the years: would be my first recommendation.
I currently use a Dell Inspiron, while it's works great, I had to do some extra work occasionally. I love that I can get fingerprint login with it on Linux though.
I second endless os. Parental controls, locked down system, comes prepackaged with many educational apps.
I'm a bit sad that my favorite (Infinity/Eternity) isn't that high up. Loved it since my Reddit days. Tried different clients: Lemmy, thunder, liftoff, sync,... still like this the most!
I've used a lot of distributions over the years, and I don't think you have to worry about a different set of commands across most distributions. It's some variation of distropkgmgr followed by command, where command, where command is generally one of install upgrade refresh/update remove search to name the most common. If you use a software frontend like gnome-software or discover, you don't even need to worry about command line differences.
The only exception to that is nixos, which I wouldn't recommend to someone just switching. It is very cool, just needs more experience.
The shell commands are the same one installed for the most part.
Out of curiosity, are you planning to use a different os when your ssd arrives? I switched from Ubuntu to endeavouros (Arch) to Opensuse tumbleweed on my primary laptop (i9 processor), no complaints 😁!
Very cool.
Interesting timing that opensuse recently announced slowroll, which has a slower cadence for updates (updates with monthly frequency, rather than daily, while security updates are still ASAP.
Depending on whether frequent updates is you thing or you prefer slightly delayed cycles.. you can easily convert your install to slowroll
Ubuntu uses snaps, which I've found sluggish on older ide hard drives. To be honest, even flatpaks are very slow for these in my experience.
I think you might be better off with opensuse tumbleweed.
Novelty recommendation besides tumbleweed: antix.
While I haven't used antix except out of curiosity in a virtual machine, they are lightweight, but they have a hard stance against systemd.
Yep... definitely crazy. Tried easy, was thinking I seemed to be pretty smart up to 4 lines. Then it just kept screwing me with two alternating pieces and the holes started. It loves giving you angles that go the wrong way around given your current block layout 😅
Gotta try this for fifteen minutes then ditch it forever. Never heard of it before, but as they say: curiosity killed the cat!
I never imagined I'd like playing Tetris on the command line, on a terminal on my phone (termux), but here I am!
I couldn't find any Tetris app on fdroid, and just checked if pkgs had one. Lo and behold! It asked me to run pkgs install vitetris, and when I did, the tetris command was there to launch the game.
It's a two step process, as opposed to just launching an app, but it is very lightweight, no tracking, and FOSS.
For anyone with termux already installed and feeling a bit nostalgic, might be worth trying it out.
Hacki is pretty good.
I use fdroid apps whenever possible... This was the only one on fdroid as of a few months ago.
I have a massive subscribe list, and I usually just read subscriptions. I'll occasionally (maybe once it twice a week) read all, and if I notice interesting communities: subscribe to them too.
This is the caveat for me for now.
I've got decent RAM on an I9, but my graphics card, which is what matters here, isn't up to par.