I wish this was available as a flatpak. There are just toooo many dependencies that need to be custom install to install Sonic Pi. Packaging it for distro will be a nightmare.
It actually is available as a Flatpak, and it wasn't until these two things converged that I stopped having to put effort into getting it to work under Linux. (This is actually another reason it took me so long to pick this back up.)
Flatpak to the rescue.