Noble Bacon

This is a great deal, but the files are not encrypted and Nextcloud’s encryption plugin is wonky.

Just something to have in mind…

You could have gone pure Debian. There are no snap shenanigans over there :)

OpenSuse is also a great pick tho!

As someone who distrohoped quite a bit, let me give you some advice:

• Try the new distro in a VM first.
• Configure your distro as you want and put all the commands you used in a script to use when you make the switch.
• Ask your self, what do i get from distrohoping? Is it really worth it?
• Create a dotfilles git repo with all of your configs. Create a script to install your dotfiles easily. (Either by copying them to .config or creating symlinks)

Remember that, at the end, linux is linux, remember that you can customize you distro to look exactly like the fancy one you saw.

This is quite a rabbit hole you are getting yourself into, but to keep it short and relatively simple, you need to figure out something very important beforehand:

• Do you want a rolling release or a stable distro?

I’m assuming that, you are not yet familiar with these terms, so let’s go with the stable distros.

You have a lot of options here, most of them will all be based of Ubuntu, which is based in Debian, so let me drop a few generally good suggestions in no particular order:

• Linux Mint
• MX Linux
• ZorinOS
• PopOS
• Fedora, (This one is not a stable distro, but you should be good with it)

Either of these is a good starting point. If down the road you feel like they stop fitting your needs, start exploring the big three, (Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux).