No. But if you keep /home dir intact, that “clean install” won’t be much of a hassle. Or why do you care about “clean install”?

I prefer \n for less typing.

Avoid small “made for [something]” distros. Use something as mainstream as possible. Debian/Ubuntu/RedHat. Select something that you like from these.

A Swiss flag with some high-scale photo of worm as a background?

My keyboard has a few modes of backlight. Most of them are crazy shit without any purpose. I can’t disable them programmatically as their shitty shitware doesn’t work under Linux. So after every reset/turn-on I cyclically run through those blimping abominations of backlight modes.

I miss old IBM or Mitsumi keyboards that were just keyboards.