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  I'd like to suggest Linux Mint: It allows you to use guides and software written for Ubuntu but disables all the scummy stuff.

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  Jesus fucking Christ guys. Regardless of your thoughts on age verification, hunting down someone just for complying with the (currently) rather inoffensive law is nuts. Posting his face here is absolutely going to get him doxxed, and going to cause someone to actually hunt him down and hurt him. Focus your anger on the people who actually passed and push for this law. Not the person who drew the short straw and had to implement it. EDIT: Yeah, this whole discussion is toxic now. Suggesting th...

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  I've been using Mint+Home Manager on my main desktop and NixOS on other devices.

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  I'd recommend using an atomic distro. Then if you get shot to pieces you can roll back to a good state.

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  Snapshots seem an ideal tool for the job. It won't replace a full backup system, but as long as the cost of failure (such as you mistyping a command and nuking the disk's partition data or something) is only a few hours of OS reconfiguration rather than losing priceless family photos, it should work. I use btrfs snapshots on my system. When I'm about to do something "risky" (e.g. trying out kde or cosmic) I take a snapshot beforehand. Then when I want to go back, I just re...