It really comes down to how much you want already set up. Archinstall = base system with DE / Endeavour = base system with helpful scripts / Cachyos = Full System

All of them work. How much work you want to put in and how close you want to stay to Vanilla.

Arkane looks very cool. Will have to look into it. Edit: How well is it maintained?

Were the codecs annoying in Kinoite? I always got thrown off because Aurora came with “batteries included” so I figured Kinoite would be a pain, but maybe its not.

I also wanted to try Aeon. I always had issues installing Tumbleweed though. But it looks super nice.

I want to try distrobox as well. Never used it before but I was just reading about it and thinking if I can benefit from it.

For some reason rpmostree always confused, but I’m the type of person to overthink things. Just using flatpak seemed easier, but I know you can pretty much just do that in Silverblue.