I used to always tell people I use Linux to avoid doing tech support. It was working pretty well for a few years, now my friend just asked me to install it for him. I guess I played myself.

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In case anyone is curious and lazy, the origin of the name is Czech (for forced labor, if Wikipedia is to believed) and not English. Karel Capek wrote a play where he coined the term, and the name stuck despite his robots being biological

Fedora is more up to date than Ubuntu, and quite stable. Of course, depending on the exact packages you're looking for the answer might change.

Gsconnect is the gnome version; I think that's how I had it working on xfce

Xubuntu on the desktop, Fedora on the laptop