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Fedora Atomic desktops, specifically Kinoite with KDE6 works well for me, and is basically unbreakable due to the way it works.
I vote the same, but I'd suggest a uBlue spin of the Fedora Atomic desktops. They have better defaults (all batteries included, as they say) and are easier to use overall IMHO. Bluefin and Bazzite are both great options, and both offer KDE and Gnome variants.
https://universal-blue.org/
Edit: TIL the KDE version of Bluefin is called Aurora.
BTW, uBlue is getting some big recognition lately. They have been on the Fedora Podcast (official) and Framework Laptops has official instructions on their website for installing Bluefin and Bazzite.
Gotta be slightly careful with those spins though because there is near-zero documentation.
They have significant documentation, and anything not covered here is just part of Fedora atomic:
https://docs.bazzite.gg/
That is a different spin than the original comment, which is why I made that commen.
https://docs.getaurora.dev/ https://docs.projectbluefin.io/ aurora has one small page of documentation total unless you click on the logo which suddenly opens a hidden unlabeled drawer with sparse docs. Bluefin has even less. I consider this near-zero documentation. So how would OP's non-techy girlfriend (or someone who has only heard of aurora and bluefin from this thread) know to go to bazzite, a completely different project to most people, to debug their completely different OS? Because googling "ublue aurora flatpak won't install" literally gives this page: https://docs.getaurora.dev/guides/software/ which is literally almost useless.
Bazzite's documentation has gotten way better since I installed it (they had almost nothing on rpmostree commands when I did), but I don't believe everything in the documentation for bazzite applies the same to aurora and bluefin, especially with differences in pre-installed non-layered gaming defaults vs working with flatpaks will be not even close to the same.
Also fedora knoite has little documentation https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-kinoite/. It has enough to get you started and installed, but that is about it. It has one single line of code about
rpmostreefor example, not even anything about installing an RPM not in fedora's limited repos.I didn't say any of it was bad. Just that you have to be slightly careful with using those for non-techy users because the documentation just isn't there yet.
What do you feel is missing from the documentation, can you be specific? You're examples are too generalized to be actionable.
Fedora is a bit too eager to deliver new updates IMO, especially KDE. As much as I love KDE, their .0 releases have had serious bugs several times in a row now. It's always better to wait for .1 patch with Plasma. It may be hard for the user to break Kinoite, but it won't save them from bugs.
Fedora's mission have always been to push new stuff when it's "mostly ready" at the cost of inconveniencing of some users, so I wouldn't recommend it for non-tech-savvy people.
I know people say that it's 100% stable for them (as they do for Arch, Tumbleweed, Debian Sid, etc) but that's survirorship bias. As any bleeding edge distro, Fedora has its periods of stability that are broken by tumultuous transitions to the new and shiny tech (like it was with Pipewire, Wayland default, major DE upgrades, etc). During these times some people's setup will break and you don't know ahead of time if it will be yours.
Pick one of the
stablechannels from Universal Blue. You get the Fedora atomic goodness, but "ready" rather than "mostly ready".Does it use the same flawed approach as Manjaro by indiscriminately delaying all updates (including critical security fixes)?
It would be whatever Fedora is doing in stable, but that seems unlikely. I'm sure the internet has the answer.
I've been on the
latestbranch for a year and it's been rock solid across 2 different laptops.I don't think Fedora has a "stable" channel. It has "testing" repo from which updates are pushed to "updates" repo after approval, and that's it. My understanding is that ublue's "latest" channel follows Fedora's "updates", while "stable" seems to update weekly (though it's unclear what happens if a package update arrives in Fedora just before "stable" image is about to be built)
eh, gnome is about the same.
i always wait for at least the .1 or .2
Haven't used GNOME for a while, but I guess that's a problem of open source projects in general. Though GNOME at least has Red Hat behind it.