Okay, I'm switching over to my new @system76 Thelios Mira atm (which is glorious, by the way). I decided to go with Ubuntu Studio. I haven't used KDE in years, and I wasn't convinced right away.
But WOW, there are so many cool features! Here's one of my favorites, which I was delighted to happen upon: you can tell Dolphin (the file GUI) to open a terminal at the bottom of the window, which automatically cd's to wherever you go in the GUI!