@mikeslr
I currently use the following portable apps from Mike Walsh's repository:
Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Audacity, Brave, Palemoon, VLC.
I don't care what distro i use, as long as it has a very good GUI and plenty of apps that run OOTB. I recently tried MXLinux which I had high hopes for, but the portable apps would not run. I heard positive comments about KDE/Plasma, but I don't know if that could be a viable option. My Linux literacy is low, but I can follow simple instructions. I do not want to use systemd.
I am looking for approaches that are uncomplicated and unproblematic (if they exist?).
Thanks!