Deemix-gui + Deezer subscription or SoulSeek/Nicotine+

So you’re telling me they stole 3 million dollars?

Tidal does not always have lossless quality audio, I personally recommend deezer

I was baaaaarely sentient this morning lol, looking back on it I don’t think so either.

Please don’t take my pencils from me Goldene

I agree with every point you make except for the desktop environment front end.

While it is nice to install a distro with a given desktop environment OOTB, you can always change it, and even have multiple ones installed at the same time. This is typically a better approach to testing out desktop environments because you don’t have to reinstall every time.