I've usually hated using RPM/Red Hat based distros because they tend to create giant headaches whenever you need to use a relatively recent release of a library

I've usually hated using RPM/Red Hat based distros because they tend to create giant headaches whenever you need to use a relatively recent release of a library or application and because I just don't like their package manager. I think most people's problems with Ubuntu having too short of a release cycle come from people installing the current version of Server instead of the LTS version. I've known shops that stupidly used non-LTS Ubuntu server releases, and then kept them running after their support cycle ended... I think maybe that's what happens when people who don't really know how the Ubuntu ecosystem just start using stuff.