Termux, install proot and a DE, then VSCode

I’m not your (future) buddy, (future) pal!

I’m not sure why you are being downvoted but I agree with you. Helping them set up the first time makes their transition to Linux smoother. I just had someone’s laptop prepared with the steps you outlined in your previous comment and left them on how to install flatpak apps. They said they want to learn more beyond flatpak and genuinely interested how to learn to install the distro themselves.

What are you syncing across accounts?

I’m on 5 instances, primarily for redundancy just in case an instance experiences hiccups I could login to another.