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I have a Lenovo Flex with Aurora, which is a version of Fedora Atomic with "batteries installed" (nonfree libraries included) and a KDE desktop.
If you prefer Gnome that version is Bluefin.
The advantage of an atomic/immutable distro is that it's effectively impossible to break, but you can't tinker with the internals like you would a regular distro. And that's still with fresh packages hot from the oven about once a week.