@aburka KaOS? It's an independent KDE Plasma-based distro, it uses pacman (arch package manager) but isnt based on arch, it uses it's own compiled packages and repos. It's also rolling-release.
@paragon promising! It's fast and has working wifi on the install media. I'm a little worried about the depth of the package repositories as an independent distro
@aburka flatpak is always there to be honest, i always install everything i need as a flatpak usually anyways except for a couple of exceptions, i recommend trying flatpak if the official repos are bare.