May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?
I agree on the older packages (I don’t need cutting edge), but what do mean about “dependency hell”?
Side note, I laughed a bit at this, I haven’t heard the term “dependency hell” since the old rpm editor hat days before yum.