Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness.
McKenna formulated a concept about the nature of time based on fractal patterns he claimed to have discovered in the I Ching, which he called novelty theory, proposing this predicted a transition of consciousness in the year 2012. His promotion of novelty theory and its connection to the Maya calendar is credited as one of the factors leading to the widespread beliefs about 2012 eschatology.
You could always fork them. That's one of the wonderful things about Linux and FOSS. Straight copy the code to a new project. That may be beyond your current skill set but it's always an option.
I mean you only have three paths really. Distro-hop until you find something else. Start with a pre-built like mint or fedora and make it what you want or build from scratch.
I distro hopped for a long time, then ended up going through the basic arch install one weekend and omg it's easy now with their archinstall script, I've gotten lazy and just use Fedora.
Tldr: I suggest investing the time to do the arch install on your side machine just as a learning experience, particularly by hand and without the script. It will be invaluable to you not just as a Linux user but as a computer user. Even if you end up on another OS you'll be more capable and comfortable with the terminal. I really can't emphasize how useful that will be and what doors it may unlock for you.
Small example is all the poorly written yet functional bash scripts I write for myself. How I used wget -r to scrape my university's website and made a database of old solutions to homework and exams for myself.