honestly Flatpak can be good if you're not really into the AUR, especially now it has verified packages. sidenote, I'm on Windows as of recent since my music listening workflow works best there. But I might give the Arch-based CachyOS a whirl.

thing is I'm super into the AUR but needed this one program for text-to-speech for a client project and the best option I could find was only available either via flatpak or snapd. no way I'm going with snapd so I settled with flatpak.