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You can still do the auto snapshot daily/weekly plus the manual snapshot whenever big update coming or try something.

WSL for me.

Sail the sea.

In your word, pointless.

Mint Cinnamon. I would choose Zorin Lite (XFCE) as it has nice theme already.

You can try Real-Debrid, it’s direct link so no need for torrent.

Try Dodi.

Setup Btrfs + Btrfs Assistant, rollback if any update breaks things you need.

It’s stable enough for me everyday use but this will depend on your use case + hardware setup. Even some people will swear by Manjaro for years without breaking. I found that usually if stuffs break in Arch, i can fix it but not so much if stuffs break by update from Ubuntu/Fedora.

I find it hard to think you care about the beginner experience if you recommend Arch.

There’s a KDE plugin for Wallpaper Engine

https://store.kde.org/p/1475528

Github: https://github.com/catsout/wallpaper-engine-kde-plugin

An alternative to Kubuntu is TuxedoOS (similar to PopOS (Gnome) but for KDE). You can also try KDE Neon.

You can use VM to install and try new distro, worst case you make a new VM and start again.

For learning, if it was me I would just roll with Arch, using distro like Garuda that has BTRFS rollback or even EndeavourOS. A fuck up can be saved from BTRFS rollback, back up dual boost or 2nd pc.

Avoid Nvidia.

To get used to the terminal, I suggest using Oh my zsh with zsh-autosuggestions + zsh-syntax-highlighting plugin. Setup link

Linux Mint.

What issues do you have? Maybe try to spend some time to fix the issues and not resort to distro hopping. Learn to fix it and you should know how to deal with the issues on any distros.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dell_XPS_13_(9310)

Icon: WhiteSur

Cursor: Bibata

Theme KDE(+ Lightly): Catppuccin Macchiato teal (Mocha for terminal)

Catppuccin looks nice and it’s also available for other apps, I even use Catppuccin for Lemmy.

Make an alias like “sudo dnf upgrade && flatpak update”.