I've used kubuntu and neon in the past. The issue I ran into was kubuntu not having the latest KDE software, and it wasn't available in back ports. I tried switching to neon but it's based on the LTS version of Ubuntu so the kernel was pretty old, it didn't have great support for my hardware.
I switched to tumbleweed and have been loving it since.
I definitely recommend you do your own research into this. Brute forcing ssh keys should be practically impossible. Is it necessary to install fail2ban with password login disabled? Not sure, I'm of the opinion that it won't hurt, just one more line of defense. It's pretty easy to setup.
Security through obfuscation is never a good idea. Best practices for exposing ssh (iirc):
All of those are pretty easy to do, and after that you're in a really good place.
I don't see a problem with ssh tunneling to access services, as long as the ssh server is secured correctly
Isn't odysee shutting down?
What features are locked behind the cloud for the X1? We have several at work and they've been fantastic. Repairs are easy enough, they have decent documentation. While the parts are proprietary, they are pretty affordable.
I'm personally very happy with tumbleweed. It's been very stable, and has the built in rollback feature on the off chance an update played bad with your system (I've only needed to use it two or three times over the last few years across three different computers). Tumbleweed also integrates super well with plasma.
SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
Looks like free
SUSE plans to contribute this project to an open source foundation, which will provide ongoing free access to alternative source code.
Sounds like they're spinning this off to a separate legal entity which won't be profit driven. I'm not saying don't be cautious, but it looks like they're taking appropriate steps to work with the community.
It sounds like talking to a therapist about this would help you out. I hope you find closure.
I was using it on my older Asus and ran into wifi issues. I actually replaced the laptop before switching to tumbleweed. I'm running it on 3 computers so far, a Dell G15, custom built desktop, and a framework laptop.
I'm really liking it, it's a rolling release so it always has the news versions of everything, it's been really stable but also has a built in rollback feature in case there's a bad update