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I'll typically do a minimal starting distro and lots of tuning, which works decently I think in the desktop world. But whenever I tried to apply this to a Laptop it would fail miserably, I think because my various static configurations don't work great for typical laptop use cases.

Boring old Ubuntu with some DE customization works totally fine on a laptop, though. I don't know why I tried to do this hard-mode for years.

>>bee_ri+(OP)
Yeah, I used to run a vanilla Arch install on my laptop, and I did manage to get it working almost as well as Windows or macOS after about a week of tinkering, but after a certain point I realized that I want to work on cooler problems than mucking with systemd or dkms, so I just installed Ubuntu and never looked back until I bought a Macbook last year.

I think the newest versions of Ubuntu are great. They've started to give me everything I like about macOS [1] while being FOSS(ish) and portable to any computer I want.

[1] Not comparing Ubuntu to macOS directly, but more of a macOS "feel" in the sense of how I use it.