That’s a shame, I rather like bauh

It works ? I mean what necessary functionality is it missing ? Magnet link goes in, files come out, happy face.

Generally most people get recommended to start their Linux journey with Mint as it is noob friendly (while still having full functionality) other options to consider would be popOS Ubuntu & Fedora.

qBittorrent is the most recommended I’ve seen, although I use transmission.

Given the TOR part is kinda the point of tails you may wish to expand on what exactly a “tails like live os without tor” looks like.

The standard Mint iso will boot into a live session with no persistence, click on network icon to join tge wifi and away you go. You can setup a script to install stuff that isnt on the stock build (pretty sure firefox is there but a vpn config for example).

Without a use case description that sounds like what you’re asking for.

I’m sure the other distros that offer live usbs will be the same.

If timeshift is not already installed, please do. Do a snapshot before you update and set the settings to auto delete / keep only a certain number (or do it manually) so you don’t fill your hard drive. I usually keep 1 monthly, 3 weekly and 3 dailies on a rolling basis

If you do the snapshot religiously then when an update breaks it you can just boot a liveUSB and restore (mint iso is a live USB and has it already installed).

You do of course then need to work out what broke and why once you’ve rolled back to the prior working state

Sorry, proof of concept, i was being lazy

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While KDE plasma can be made to work on Mint (I’ve done it as a PoC) it is NOT something a beginner should be doing because a) it’s an unsupported config and b) you need to pull in non mint repositories to get the plasma files, and then you’ll be fiddling around to get it working again when an update breaks something.

If Mint has been troublesome then popOS ubuntu and Fedora would be better choices.