I would recommend you Aurora or Bluefin. They’re both the same, but one is KDE, and the other is Gnome.
They are pretty much indestructible, ultra-low maintenence (staged automatic updates, etc.), different branches, great quality of life tweaks and more included.
It’s a bit similar to how Android works, but powered by a common PC.
With the great touchpad both KDE and Gnome would shine due to their smooth gestures they offer.
I recommend you Aurora. It is basically Bazzite, which you already suggested, but without gaming stuff.
Why do I recommend you that?
GTS
variant around, which uses the last big release of Fedora, which is still kept up to date maintenance wise. So, you are always half a year behind in terms of new features, but it has been tested for half a year more than regular Fedora or the other images. When you choose the more conservative GTS variant, you’ll get way fewer surprises.After installation, you can hop into the terminal and use the
ujust rebase-helper
, where you can select which image variant you want to havelatest
: synchronous with Fedorastable
(default): features are two weeks behindgts
: already said, last release, but still secure and more polished.I think it is the perfect balance for you between “Debian is too stale” and “Fedora and many other distros change too often”.