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Fedora; from its 'flagship' Workstation, to their glorious Spins and their Immutable Desktops

Fedora Silverblue - pretty well-known at this point, but it’s championing immutability

Couldn't have said it better!

An example of an installable immutable OS is Fedora Silverblue. Notably, you can change the "distro" flavor of Silverblue to try out KDE and then just flip back to Gnome. Each change is seen as an "update" that just moves you over to the new GUI. The article below explains a bit more.

I guess something like Fedora Silverblue might offer you something (to paraphrase) "stupid proof". For example, in this case the rpm-ostree rollback command would have been sufficient. Disclaimer: rpm-ostree builds images, therefore it's by necessity slower than apt. Futhermore, until this change is merged and deployed you'd have to reboot for the changes to apply. You might want to look into Distrobox as well, perhaps it can solve your problems without having to change your distro.

However, I'll add one more that I'm especially fond of. It's one of the most 'stable'\1]) Linux desktop systems\2]) without sacrificing access to the latest kernel-updates and packages. It comes bundled with everything\3]) necessary for productivity right out of the box and is built on top of the fundamentals laid by Fedora's Immutable Desktops. Allow me to introduce uBlue; I know that I'll undersell it regardless, so I recommend you to check the provided link instead.

the immutable desktops offered by Fedora; which would be Silverblue, Kinoite and Sericea (special mention goes to uBlue)

OS: Fedora Silverblue

Use LoveWindowsAgain from GitHub to easily uninstall all bloatware + some other neat tweaks. It's also extremely easy to use.

I have used this a few times without issues to disable telemetry/tracking/bloat. The dev also has a tool for Win10 users called Privatezilla, just throwing that out there in case anyone on W10 is reading this..

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I would only feel comfortable suggesting Privatezilla because it is open source. With OO ShutUp10++ you are installing software that tampers with your system and there is no way to understand how it works or if it's doing anything malicious. Privatezilla is also still maintained, as a matter of fact, they just released a big update code named Pollux that integrates LoveWindowsAgain which is a Windows 11 utility to disable various stupid things in Windows 11. I would also recommend what u/domsch1988 suggested, and use winget to uninstall anything else you don't 100% need.

Or by using an open source tool like ThisIsW11 or LoveWindowsAgain