For me: Last I checked, debian had a lot more packages which worked together (Wikipedia says it's currently ~70,000 to Fedora's ~20,000, and RHEL's "3000 + 9000

For me: Last I checked, debian had a lot more packages which worked together (Wikipedia says it's currently ~70,000 to Fedora's ~20,000, and RHEL's "3000 + 9000 from EPEL"). Notably after running Debian on my servers for years, I tried getting the same setup on RHEL to see how it compared - starting with getting nginx running. On debian it was "apt install nginx". on RHEL, nginx wasn't available from the main repo so I had to use an unofficial third party. The third party binary didn't work so I tried to compile from source. Compiling from source failed because some libraries were missing. Those libraries also weren't in the rhel repo. The third party repo had some, but they were out of date. Trying to compile the libraries from source, one of them used Scons rather than Autoconf, so I tried to install that. RHEL didn't even include the basic popular (at the time) build tools, so I decided to give up rather than compile my entire stack from scratch bypassing the package manager :P