u/Toukaiskindahot

I'm going to buy a laptop eventually for college and just wondering if Debian be fine or if there is anything I should be aware of? I'm mostly going to be in a web browser and all that, nothing crazy. This same laptop has an inbuilt DVD drive and not sure if optical drives are still supported? It's 2026 so most people aren't going to have disc drive so would I need to install anything to make it work?

I don't know too much about Debian, I only used it for very short time. I just know it's super stable and don't have to update very often at all.

I am going to start college eventually and I like the compact look to it these laptops, I don't mind the Japanese keyboard layout. I also want to use these laptops to watch dvds and Linux is also going to be installed.

The specific model I am looking at are the Panasonic Let's Note CF-SV9 models, though some don't come with a disc drive so I don't know if an older model will have similar specs to the SV9? Or is there something better out there that I don't know about?

I'm sure that is question has come up a lot but I'm curious if I switch will this affect most of the applications I use? Am I also able to use the new Plasma login manager?