Been using PopOS for 2 years, it is nice and stable But I found it lacking in package department (cus Debian based), lots of things are outdated and I find myself constantly building apps from source. I'd go with Arch or Endeavour in a heartbeat, but my machine is a production machine at this point in time thus I can't afford downtime at all. I absolutely recommend Arch or derivatives. It is worth getting used to.
If I do remember correctly, they fined google 100k or so a few years ago, and said they're gonna double the fine after each week of non-compliance
Libs are mirroring hard and aren't even aware of that 🥶
Currently I use gnome cosmic because of PopOS, integration and stuff. When I get around using Arch I'm certainly gonna get myself Plasma, because it's pretty af
For my personal projects I use ~/dev/projects/
For clones I use ~/dev/clones
My audio engineering stuff is at ~/audio/{samples, plugins, projects, templates}