Ubuntu based distros are the least fiddly in my opinion. Large desktop userbase, and lots of relatively up-to-date packages. Debian and rhel based distros ar

Ubuntu based distros are the least fiddly in my opinion. Large desktop userbase, and lots of relatively up-to-date packages. Debian and rhel based distros are pretty solid, but I find it's packages to be quite older, fine for a server OS, but a frustrating development experience for me. Haven't used fedora much, but it's probably fine. Could look into using chrome OS, zero fiddle for the basic user experience, and you can run sandboxed linux apps. It's been a while since I've used Linux as a full-time development environment, my current job provides a mac, and on my personal laptop, I have embraced the fiddle and am using arch.