If you don’t like Gnome, use Aurora (the sister distro of Bluefin and Bazzite).

I used to play around with Aeon (built from opensuse). But it’s locked to Gnome only. I’d stick with Aurora or Bazzite instead.

Even better, they’re doing an Orwell reference in defence of fascists.

Blast Em or Ares is the answer. I think they’re both in flatpak. I did have some issues with button mapping in Blast Em but that was a couple years ago.