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I migrated from W11 to Kinoite and NY workflow is similar - flatpak, distrobox (right now I have Arch and Ubuntu boxes for different programs) and only layer essential system wide packages to the ostree.
Its very stable and I seriously enjoy using it. The *how Linux should be" piece is mostly resolves and enhanced by using distrobox.
KDE plasma is awesome and a great DE for a beginner like me.
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.
Not at all for me, but my primary use case is audio production. Everything recognized and sync'd on first boot - audio interface, controllers, synthesizers etc. No major driver or codec issues at all.
I use Intel Arc for my GPU and it picked that up right away no need to layer any additional packages. Definitely check around if you're on nvidia I think that's the bigger codec issue that is solved by ublue distros
I did run into some issues trying to run my DAW as a flatpak and now have it working well in a distrobox, but that's largely because I am set on still running some windows plugins via Wine and yabridge..