bazzite has a developer mode you can switch to, which will install and set-up a bunch of tools for you. There are also simple commands you can run from the terminal, they make it easy. Just open a terminal and read the prompt and follow the directions to launch a script and choose what tweaks you want.

Bluefin and Aurora are related to bazzite but are more stable, or have more stable versions available, and are developer focused. The biggest difference is that game software like steam isn’t layered in, but installed via flatpak, which may cause issues with VR.

Depending on what you are doing you should be familiar with or want to learn how to use a containerized development environment.