I tried Ubuntu back when they were tossing Amazon search ads onto the system. There was also, idk, a million and one things, like games and other junk, that I d

I tried Ubuntu back when they were tossing Amazon search ads onto the system. There was also, idk, a million and one things, like games and other junk, that I didn't want. Coming from Arch, this put a sour taste in my mouth. It would take me 30 minutes to build an Arch the way I wanted it. The install on Ubuntu already took 2 hours, then I would have to spend countless hours uninstalling trash I didn't want. Maybe this isn't true anymore, but "apt-get [package]" was a game of whack-a-mole. If I ran apt-get, I wanted the latest version, not have to guess, hunt, uninstall wrong versions, etc. Fedora is a minimal system, very much like I would have on Arch. dnf defaults to the most recent stable version of whatever I want to use, and the entire system is built with that in mind. It sort of depends on what kind of programs you prefer to use. I personally like to have the most recent "x," though I understand the arguments for not having that preference. However, knowing the default is going to be the most recent, I have no need to think beyond that simple fact if I need to use an older version of a program.