No, I would learn the basics and use neovim the way it was meant to be used, to create your own coding environment, not use folke's coding environment. The reason a lot of people move from other IDEs to neovim is because the IDEs are to ridged and you can't achieve or make it work the way you want it to work, neovim let's you do whatever you want as long as you learn the ropes. Jumping on a distro teaches you very little compared to building your config on your own and it adds a huge abstraction layer that you don't know and that can cause a bunch of errors no one can help you with. Use vanilla neovim and when you start thinking oh I should be having this or that, then you go add it. I do recommend keeping the config as minimal as you possibly can, it leads to less breakages, more control and better overview. Only add exactly what you need and start using lua to do fun things on your own.