Calamares is ridiculously good, Manjaro has one of the easiest installs out there. (And by the way, I’ve found NixOS CLI formatting way easier than Debian GUI formatting.)
Also sorry for kind-of making a duplicate issue. sphalerite mentioned this which is a great resource User-friendly NixOS distro? - #5 by davidak
However, my idea thinks a little bit further, designing the actual aesthetic. “turns out “OS nerd” and “touhou fanatic” are a commonly overlapping demographic” -V. Might push the thing forward 