- beer (cheaper away from the beach)
- hat for shade
- fishing pole if you like fishing
- cheap old phone if you have one, can swap your sim card to it. Keeps sand and water away from nice newer phone
openSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty comfy. Btrfs snapshots enabled by default so it’s really hard to break it. I’ve been using it for about 8 months now and haven’t had any big issues.
Have you checked out OpenSUSE Tumbleweed? Very stable rolling release. I’ve been using it for a couple years without issues.