My opinion is to pick distro based on how you want install apps preferably as main deciding factor
Result will be same as on windows, most apps will use the standard way and will all be listed on the same place, and you will have some obscure apps from cocky devs who think that only their preferred install way is correct and that everyone say something else is stupid
WARNING MAY SEEM A BIT HARAH,
this is a meme community, so pls take this as satire
As if you would see all your installed apps on one place in windows, lol
Only most, but that is the same on Linux. Only if you go to Linux thinking it should be complex it will go complex
If you just stay at the install way your distro wants you to use, you will get no mess.
Arch -> yay Opensuse -> gui and https://software.opensuse.org/packages Fedora -> flatpak Ubuntu -> snap Debian -> APT Nix -> the nix file thingy
My opinion is to pick distro based on how you want install apps preferably as main deciding factor
Result will be same as on windows, most apps will use the standard way and will all be listed on the same place, and you will have some obscure apps from cocky devs who think that only their preferred install way is correct and that everyone say something else is stupid