Overspark

I think unattended-upgrades only runs once a day by default, and the repository index could have changed since then. Different results on different machines can be because unattended-upgrades didn’t run at the same time, or from the same mirror (and mirrors take a while to propagate changes). Generally speaking you should always run an apt update directly before installing new packages.

When I was a kid 320x200 was the best you could do on a (Commodore 64) monitor. With 16 colours! Which was a lot, because PC’s at that time could only output 4 colours at once on that resolution (CGA). We’ve certainly come a long way since then.

Arch in the front, Debian in the back(end). I run Arch on my laptop and Debian on my homeserver. I’ve ran Debian on laptops before and if stable is getting older hardware support can be a struggle, much better on a rolling distro like Arch. And having all the newest toys on your desktop is very very nice. While on my homeserver I mostly want stability, everything else runs in (podman) containers anyway.

Cachy is a distro I would consider, because it’ll theoretically give you slightly better battery life due to the optimised compiles, although I’m not sure you’ll ever really notice. Manjaro has a reputation of breaking far more often than Arch does, so that one’s a no for me.