As someone who uses Arch as a daily driver and has spent plenty of time messing around with rpmbuild I disagree with your claim that yum (RPMs) is tedious to ma

As someone who uses Arch as a daily driver and has spent plenty of time messing around with rpmbuild I disagree with your claim that yum (RPMs) is tedious to maintain. RHEL and CentOS are behind on software releases because they actually freeze functionality when they make a release and updates within a release will not upgrade to the latest and greatest major release of that software. They tediously backport bug fixes and security patches to keep the old version up to date and only upgrade to the latest and greatest when a new release comes around years later. Arch is just a rolling release, it's basically the equivalent of running Rawhide but waiting for a couple weeks to install updates. RedHat spends more effort supporting the old versions that they ship than just following upstream. The whole point of an enterprise distro with long term releases is that they don't do any of those major updates to add features between releases. I can install CentOS and not worry that an update is going to suddenly change how a package works. Just look at https://www.archlinux.org/news/ https://www.archlinux.org/news/, most of those almost bi-weekly news entries are stuff that I don't need to sweat on CentOS because they won't make any changes like that between releases.