Slackware. In 27-ish years of using it, it’s never once crashed or failed to install

Slackware founder Patrick Volkerding https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6626190

"I’ll weigh in a little bit here, I guess. At this point, I’d rather not implement something like this and don’t see the point of the legislation as written (other than, more than likely, get a foot in the door.) But my code is my speech. I doubt these laws would survive a challenge, as it’s pretty clearly government compelled speech.

Any lawyers looking for a test case? :-)"

I can’t find anything concrete from Fedora but the Fedora leader was thinking of ways to comply in some manner a month ago and had more ideas recently

A month ago: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/california-age-verification/181968

More recent: https://itsfoss.com/news/fedora-leader-suggests-age-verification-api/

Slackware on desktop, laptop and mini PC, Debian on anything smaller

It’s been a few years but Post10 was the name of one guy doing that. I watched some of his videos a few years ago, now every time I hear about a clogged drain I think “too bad Post10 isn’t here”

Get a $250 printer and start using it. It may be all you’ll ever need, but after a year or so it’s likely you’ll start seeing other printers with different functions that you think would be useful and will decide to upgrade. Hopefully you’ll know what you want by then.