Any of them.

Usually, we tend to pick a rolling or semi-rolling releases like Fedora to have newest drivers.

Yes, it’s good, however you need to be more specific with your query for DDG to return good result.

If you’re interested in other privacy respecting search engines, there’s Searxng and Kagi (paid).

Spin some christmas lights around those PCs :D

But they fixed the issue, and documented on why it happened and how it got fixed on their blog. Pretty transparent to me.