I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature.
I also run Linux mint in my homelab with pcie pass though so it functions like a normal desktop.
You also could use Fedora Xfce4
Very true. I’m so used to apt, and am also lazy. I just need to bite the bullet and RTFM lol.