I ended up trying Solus. It turns out I can't install it, because the installer bundles an old version of the nouveau driver, the nouveau driver crashes on my

I ended up trying Solus. It turns out I can't install it, because the installer bundles an old version of the nouveau driver, the nouveau driver crashes on my hardware, they've deleted the nvidia driver package for the version of Solus that's on the ISO (along with every other package), and there's no terminal-mode installer or any other workaround. If you want to install Solus, and the year-old installer doesn't work in GUI mode, then you're SOL.