As someone who distrohoped quite a bit, let me give you some advice:
- Try the new distro in a VM first.
- Configure your distro as you want and put all the commands you used in a script to use when you make the switch.
- Ask your self, what do i get from distrohoping? Is it really worth it?
- Create a dotfilles git repo with all of your configs. Create a script to install your dotfiles easily. (Either by copying them to .config or creating symlinks)
Remember that, at the end, linux is linux, remember that you can customize you distro to look exactly like the fancy one you saw.
You could have gone pure Debian. There are no snap shenanigans over there :)
OpenSuse is also a great pick tho!