I'm in a similar situation. Distro hopped quite a bit, (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian). For 5 years now, I've ran Fedora on an old laptop that resides at my parents

I'm in a similar situation. Distro hopped quite a bit, (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian). For 5 years now, I've ran Fedora on an old laptop that resides at my parents house, 5000 KM away from me. In that time I have not once physically been in contact with that server. I've done all updates via ssh, including full system upgrades (e.g. Fedora 32 -> Fedora 33) without any hiccups. To me, that's amazing.