Love myself some strawberry ice cream, my favourite.
And as much as I’d hoped that spez would back down from the API decision, It was never going to happen. If you read any of his recent interviews, it’s quite clear he feels really bitter that third party apps managed to succeed and be profitable, whilst Reddit itself does not (at least supposedly).
I think you might be overthinking this a tad too much, sure it can give you more problems the Windows but, in my 10 years of using it, most of the time it works fine. Pop is a decent starting place, with NVIDIA drivers being pre-installed if memory serves right, and it also has a graphical interface for installing and updating apps.
As for the terminal, it’s incredibly powerful and versatile, but you don’t need to learn and use it all at once, take small steps. Learn first the update command, the basics like cd (change directory), ls (list files and/or folders), cat (concatenate files and output to terminal), etc. Over time you’ll get the hang of the more advanced stuff.