as much i am enjoying pop!_os and used linux mint, i also like to explore other distros.
OP: I’ve tried mint tea, what other drink do you suggest?
You: if you want an interesting cocktail, try a mix of ayahuasca and peyote.
Guix as an OS made me shit myself, yell at the computer many times, and curse David from System Crafters for ever showing it to the world. And that’s with almost 10 years of Emacs experience, a loooot more Linux experience, and good enough scheme to muddle through.
It’s great as a supplementary PM though. And when used in that way you get everything guix offers appart from system configuration, but you get to use other PMs, like the ones required by the programming language you’re using.
If you want something solid you can depend on, especially when you forget to update and don’t really need the newest features, Debian will carry that need. I love that distro and it’s good to have installed as a backup tool even if you don’t think it’s a good main choice for you.
I like endeavor os. It’s a pretty easy way to get started with arch and it comes with some cool space theming.
Guix, slackware, void, PCLinuxOS, vanilla debian
Non linux: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HaikuOS
Try Nobara, it’s Fedora but with sane defaults. IMO it’s the best of the (relatively) stable distros. The main downside is that Fedora will remove x11 support in the future versions.
I’ve recently moved from Arch based distros because I was tired of having to fix minor crap all the time. I went through Debian, MX, Mint, and Opensuse during that period.