There’s already a thousand comments, but I’ll give my opinion anyway. Debian is by far the most reliable distro I have ever used. It’s easier to install than arch in my opinion, and is completely rock solid. However, if you have at least a year experience with linux and you like tinkering, nothing beats arch. I don’t recommend using distros like pop_os, endevour os, or manjaro, simply because once you have a bit of experience, it just introduces more points of failure.

TLDR;Debian, or if you are experienced, arch.

Well, with that kind of CPU, I’d reccomend 32GB of RAM, as 16 feels a little weak for such a chip.

I think it is worth noting, dma desing became rockstar north, it isn’t a separate studio. The same Lezlie Benzies wrote the story for all of them. Still, I’m pretty sure he left some time ago, same with Lazlow. I still have high hopes for GTA VI though.

Thing is, before battleye, gta online worked perfectly. I played it for years on every remotely popular linux distro, from debian, to ubuntu, linux mint, fedora etc. It’s just the fucking anticheat.

You can make that point for any operating system, basic critical thinking could mean anything

Craig branded MP3 player

Dankpods fan, are you now?

That’s Microsoft for you

Yea, not a huge fan of the push for crypto on brave

And what browser are you using?

It’s, and I’m no artist, so forgive me if I’m wrong, the very ends of his lips. They go down in the original, but in your drawing, he’s very slightly smiling, as the ends of his lips go up.

Still, very good drawing!

Amon Amarth - Berserker

A great mix of fast riffs and amazing lyrics. The mix is too bassy though.

Repeat after me: you. Can. Swear. On. The. Internet. Nazi.

Something that surprises me is that no one mentioned just running debian 12 with lxde. Though, I don’t reccomend using the netinstall, as the user created there won’t be part of the sudo group. You should use the live iso.

Lubuntu is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian. It meets all of your requirements, and has never crashed on me in my 2.5 years of using it, except when running kde, but that’s probably kde’s fault.

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.9.0-amd64-lxde.iso

If you don’t trust my link (fair enough, don’t click links from strangers), the iso can be downloaded by going to debian.org, clicking “other downloads” under the big “download” button, locating the live isos, in the “Try Debian live before installing” clicking “other live iso”, and finding the lxde iso.

Ah, I remember now. Around 2022, I used Rufus to bypass those restrictions. I wonder if it’s any easier now.

I’m sorry if I misunderstood, english is not my first language, but what stops you from upgrading the laptop from work to win 11?