What gripes me is, I’ve found several nice distros - one being Mint Cinnamon - yet they don’t come out of the box with what I consider to be essential stuff like ssh. Sure I can add them but it’s a pain to have to configure a console just to do that on systems that will run headless.
You sound techy, you might like this then. I real like the concept myself. Comes boxed with both terminal SSH and a GUI SSH client. No install. just down load the image file and move over to a bootable stick and boot into it. Less than one gig with all the apps included.
https://bkhome.org/news/202412/easyos-daedalus-series-version-653-released.html