Is there a simple way to turn off the word wrapping in the default terminal for Ubuntu/Mint? So far I haven't found anything from recent years and there doesn't seem to be a toggle or anything in the preferences menu. Most relevant threads are from like 14 years ago suggesting less command.

If not, are there alternative terminals that have word wrap disabled that I can use on Mint?

What's wrong with less? I just checked konsole and it doesn't support what you're looking for.

I have something in the back of my head that this is a bad idea to try to do, because the whole ecosystem was built around the assumption that there is a finite number of columns.
At the very least, there are various CLI tools that will show progress bars across the entire horizontal width, or they might also show some infos right-aligned.

From a quick search, I'm also only really finding methods like these, which just chop off the line, with no way to then scroll horizontally...