My friend has an ailing Chromebook and I’m getting them a decent real laptop that I’m going to put Linux on. They essentially do everything in a browser already so software compatibility isn’t an issue. I’m looking for distros with high stability, KDE, unobtrusive updates that happen without user input, and a snapshot system so we can roll back if anything gets fucked up.
Also, recs for office software to get them off Google Docs (needs to be compatible with MSOffice formats)
This is skirting around the problem, but it’s very easy to install Winboat as an AppImage through Gear Lever and use Microsoft Office apps that way if the Office 365 versions aren’t sufficient. It’s just a Windows VM, but greatly simplified in its setup and requires just a few button clicks. I use it for Word, since LibreOffice uses different margins that fuck up all my documents by making them take up more pages than they normally do.