I've been running Debian on my work & home laptops & desktops for many years now, with very few complaints. I'd recommend it. I think maybe the encryption iss

I've been running Debian on my work & home laptops & desktops for many years now, with very few complaints. I'd recommend it. I think maybe the encryption issue you refer to is a really bad bug several years ago (2008?) with SSH keys. Nothing that bad since, I believe.