At the end of the day, Borland's Turbo Pascal is what made Pascal successful still being used today as Delphi. When I first used it back in the day, it knocked my socks off. A built-in IDE and instant run. No separate compile and linker.
Distros should gave a convention and agree on a common installation standard without using this snap and flatpak vm overheads. I mean after all this is Linux. Should have a common base.
Been using Kubuntu with KDE for few months now. It just works and very happy with it. I do not use snap or flat. Just apt. I really think distrohopping is bad idea. It's like trying to find utopia. Good luck.