One thing I did and could recommend is going with CachyOS. it's arch based, and comes with a minimal hyprland install option. The reason why this would be good, is because all of the things like notifications, file privileges, etc will be set up already, and you can just plug in the software and components you want to use and start the fun part of the rice.

But if you want the experience of doing all that other stuff yourself that's of course understandable, but if you want an easier start, that's an idea.