Laptop with external monitor: need advice on which Linux distro/WM to use

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@dimitarvp

I have mostly made up my mind that I am going to use Manjaro.

So it looks you are only looking for someone to say what you wan to listen

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and it has never broken a working X11 configuration (unlike Debian and Ubuntu, although that was in the far past so I might be very unfair to them here).

Ubuntu breaking X11 its really from the past, like 2012, last time I remmeber to have the issue, that was also when I started to use Ubuntu, thus maybe was a rookie mistke, spcially when I was comming from Windows.

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And the out-of-the-box everything-is-working trait of Manjaro made it my favourite.

I don’t know Manjaro, but what kept me on Ubuntu is really the out-of-the-box just works.

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Don’t know, always felt big and bloated and booting a brand new Ubuntu KDE to see 3.5GB of RAM already taken brings too many Windows 10 memories.

Ubuntu 18.04 here, and a picture is worth 1000 words, thus here it is one after a restart:

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The laptop’s builtin display is at 2560x1440 while the external display is at 2560x1080.

I think that this is more a concern about if the graphics in the motherboard of your new Laptop support it.

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Is there a way to prevent any program to capture key presses, scan the clipboard etc. privacy intrusions? I’d like to have and enforce an easy to setup policy which does common sense isolation. But is that even possible nowadays in Linux at all?

You can always use the selinux or apparmor to tight things up.

Also you can use LXC containers to run another Linux distro inside your current Linux distro. So like one for work and another one for personal use.

My approach is to use heavily docker for my developer flow, everything runs inside a docker container, even my code editor.

For personal use in sensitive stuff I always use Firefox from inside a docker container, like when banking.