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Pretty much every distro supports flatpak and butterFS and for most of them, there's a plasma wayland variant.
If you want to learn a bit about linux in general and the things that you might care about when picking a distro in the future, do a manual arch installation. There's an install script, but you still need to know exactly what you're doing. It just does the steps outlined in the installation guide for you.
Arch is also one of the best distros for gaming because it gets new updates first, which is great when game updates break something and your OS already has the fixes for it.
Believe i read that Garuda Linux in fact say that they recommend against installing flatpaks, which is a little 'turn-off' for me tbh as I really like flatpaks. But thanks for the tips, i might try a pure arch install.