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Just buy a supported system and use the defaults. Has always worked for me since the nintees. On Linux there are a lot more defaults to choose from though, but the basics behind those was the same for a very long time.

When I am writing about this I realize that I my solution has always been a variant of the Linus Torvalds, move the old system to a chroot and reinstall. That has happened once every six years always because of user error or a new system. On Win/mac that happens more often (judging from my support load).