My one borked Linux install came from what I’m guessing was a mem leak in Endeavour (Firefox related or otherwise I’ll never know) stopping up an update/upgrade and not finishing all the post install scripts before rebooting. You’ll be fine, but Endeavour is close enough and does look good out of the box :⁠-⁠)

XDG_SESSION_THEME=KDE got my hyprland config to work on everything except the cursor (other than in Firefox/steam for some reason). Took me way too long to find the old reddit post that had this tip, so I hope it helps!

I would look at OpenSUSE and try whichever flavor meets your needs. It’s more niche than Ubuntu but on vanilla installation is easily as user-friendly. The only downside is that if you start messing with stuff, tutorials are not written with SUSE/zypper in mind as often.

I’ve been running Tumbleweed with Nvidia drivers for about 6 months and have had basically no issues. Switch between X11Plasma/KDE when I just need something direct, and Wayland/Hyprland when I want to mess about and I’ve not had to blow everything away yet.

That’s fair, there is more info and suffering font sizes. I usually minimize the disk use window myself.

Have you looked at btop by chance? More visually appealing to me, but still in terminal.