I suggest to watch the package manager commands (probably 'apt --help') and use it for your packages. Package stuff is what I use the most in the terminal.
Do you mean you want something like AUR but binary ? Fedora Silverblue can answers that question because their only packages are Flatpaks. MicroOs is similar.
I tried Nixos but it was overkill for my desktop usage. The learning time is a cost but also, on my old laptop, there is a noticeable performance loss comparing to arch. The benefits is not enough for my usecase. I prefer dealing with arch shitty updates.
One year approximatively. But I elaborate a bit, I installed the minimal version, because I use bspwm. I had issues since the tty log in. Probably the xfce iso is OK.
Linux can work without big and bloated components. Companies funded development of components that are replaceable by simpler and easy to maintain ones.
I tried Alpine for a desktop installation. The package manager has surprisingly decent package set. And the performance is the best I found, for some reason applications starts faster.
But I had to stop the experience because websites thats includes widevine didn't work.
Its sad to say, but many softwares relies on non-standard glibc shit.
With glibc instead of musl Alpine can be simply the best distro. If musl is not faster that glibc I don't think glibc will make Alpine slower.
I'm sorry...You can blame Adobe for not porting their tools.
Give a look if Adobe provides their tools through the web.