The search continues for a backup distro in case my main distro Linux Mint Cinnamon ceases to be or has some catastrophe. Linux Mint has served me well for many years. However people just love to say it a distro for noobs. I frequently (although not lately) have used VM’s to test other distros. But I want a backup distro that doesn’t require another distro to work, so it needs to be standalone boot-able. A distro that I actually use from time to time to stay somewhat familiar with it. Also my backup distro should be fundamentally different than my main distro. So not Ubuntu (and hence probably debian) based. So for the last few years I wanted that distro to be Manjaro [Arch based] KDE. It seemed to offer me the best hope. However I’ve found it to be unreliable due to updates hosing it. Perhaps that has been solved.
I’ve also recently thought about changing my main distro from Linux Mint to the recently offered Ubuntu Cinnamon. I’ve also thought about using Fedora as my backup distro. I used Fedora for a few years, maybe version 5, during my kids early school years, meaning they also used it for school projects. Also using Fedora would perhaps help in working in a corporate environment.