Arch is sweet but you’ll want some miles under your belt first. Pop is great, if you want boring but just works debian is the goat

Pedo-state

With nix all you need is the config file to distribute, and it can be preconfigured precisely how you like it. Someone loads the config file, bam Hannah Montana everywhere

A themed Nix setup would be great for this

Hyprland was an eye-opening experience for me. At first it was “Oh this is insane I can’t do anything!” but once you get going its incredibly comfortable and makes me feel much more organized. And oh yeah fast