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distrochooser.de/en/d5b4e0067841/ Your results suggest that Fedora is an equally viable alternative. Regardless, ask yourself the following question: Do you need the vastness that a repository like the AUR provides? Like, are you sure that the repositories of Fedora and openSUSE Tumbleweed don’t contain the packages that you need? Or…, is it more about liberation? Whatever the future might throw at you, you’re confident that the AUR will provide you. But…, that raises another question: are you even exotic in your software needs to begin with? The above (sub)question(s) will (hopefully) help you to make an informed decision. Furthermore, please feel free to discuss them openly in hopes that others might chime in. Anyhow, I foresee either one of the following: You actually acknowledge (or come to the revelation) that the repositories of Fedora and/or openSUSE (without going into user repositories^[To be clear, the user repository of Fedora and openSUSE don’t fare much better than the AUR. The only solace might be that Arch’s own repository is relatively small compared to theirs and thus there’s less need to search for user repositories. Hence, making it easier to manage what’s installed from user repositories.]) are sufficient for you. Thus, becoming a viable destination. The previous option does not happen, simply because your software needs are not contained within their respective repositories. In that case, I’d seriously consider to adopt nix (as a package manager on whatever distro you go for) or perhaps even NixOS if you want to go all-in. The excellent nixpkgs repository is the only one that puts the AUR to shame. Documentation definitely needs some work still. But I’ve been enjoying myself within a VM and I’d say the difficulty is perhaps overstated.