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.

Billionaire being a selfish person? Who woulda known? But yes, even though he donates a lot of his wealth, becoming a billionaire is a sign of being a sociopath.

With Archinstall its really easy. You still need to be familiar with the Wiki, but its not hard. Tedious maybe. And running all vanilla software is nice. No distro modification.

Yeah, I feel like 9/10 vanilla is best. If the developers of the DE are good it should work clean out of the box.