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You can just install Arch in a distrobox if you want or a debian + children in a distrobox, install the app and it should launch from your launcher like any other app you use. Distrobox is fantastic.
When I need to install something from the AUR, I just enter my Arch distrobox and do it, same for Ubuntu and stuff.
Edit:
I forgot to mention that you'll need to use the distrobox-export command to make it so you can launch an app like any other easily from your launcher.
I have started using Distrobox + Arch as well to get the AUR in other systems. I quite like Chimera Linux for example but it has few packages at the point. Distrobox + Arch / AUR solves that perfectly.