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Try to avoid flatpak; snap too. It's got horrible validation and by ruining single source of truth on your installation state it actually craters that validation. It's bad, and bad for you.
Don't convert packages to packages: there's too many literals in there that will cause problems. I sat on the FHS committee and I had such high hopes; but no.
Also, Manjaro's fine. Maybe look at magaeia. Its polluted with systemd fridge art, but it's maintained and fresh. It may have what you want.
Your recommending Mageaia? Seriously?
I would go with Linux mint, Fedora or something a little more mainstream