i’ve transferred 10’s of ~300 GB files via manual rsync
s. it was a lot of binary astrophysical data, most of which was noise. eventually this was replaced by an automated service that bypassed local firewalls with internet-based transfers and aws stuff.
pop is a pretty similar distro that should be compatible with what you want to do, but i’m not sure how much it hits for a more unified package management system. it’s really hard to beat the AUR and a AUR helper like
paru
for that.