I don't suppose you're thinking of the system BlendOS uses, right? It's the closest I can think of based on your description but it doesn't seem to fit the timeframe.

Nice, that's a clean looking setup! Gotta love how flexible Plasma is.

Side note, losing write access to one's own home directory sounds traumatic lol, even more so when you're new to Linux. Glad you stuck with it anyway!

It doesn't, you can install it on mostly any Linux distro

Nada te impede de usar o KDE Plasma em uma distro baseada em Debian, a distro e o ambiente gráfico são independentes. Basicamente qualquer distro hoje em dia vai te deixar escolher pelo menos entre Gnome e KDE Plasma, muitas vezes tem até mais opções!

The instant I found out about those a few months ago I just had to wire up caddy to use them lol

Yeah, it'd be one thing if they said it wasn't a priority or they didn't feel like supporting an additional channel but that was just puzzling

I don't mess with Lego nearly as much these days but yup, I used to lol. Same for grooves on technic pieces and whatnot, everything must be neat and symmetrical!

Moments like this make me miss suddenlycaralho lol

Anyway, I dig the look! The slightly different wallpapers are a nice touch, don't see that too often. Bonus points for providing your dotfiles and everything.

I recommend Bazzite, been daily driving it on my Steam Deck and it's been great. It's not that far off from being Nobara's immutable cousin so you get a pretty up to date Fedora base with user friendly but powerful gaming specific tweaks and can pick (and switch between at any time) either Gnome or KDE Plasma variants.

Due to its immutable nature, you get pretty much risk free updates and if something does break, rolling back is as easy as picking a different item at boot time. It keeps everything updated with minimal interaction, OS updates happen in the background and apply the next time you reboot, user apps just keep themselves updated. Oh and it has a NVIDIA iso with the drivers baked in so you don't need to do anything special to enable them.

The one question mark is Optimus support, not sure if it's actually in but I'd guess it works since it's got some laptop specific builds. Might be worth a try.

Edit: I just remembered they do have Asus specific builds as well

I second this, Prowlarr is way smoother to use in my experience

Just now learning this is a thing, sounds like a pretty good idea all things considered.
As a silly side note, I do feel compelled to point out that, mythical giant snake monster origins aside, minhocão taken literally means big worm and quite a few depictions reflect that. Always found that amusing.

Seconded, has extensions for just about any online source and is very actively updated. I've been a happy user for years!