>>624672It sounds like you understand the main benefit of Arch (the simplest package build system of any distro, someone made a PKGBUILD for all software that exists)
So you can decide what you want. I've personally thought about going to Gentoo and really going for a minimal system, but maybe only once I'm on wayland and don't need multilib cause Steam/Wine are finally 64bit (the latter is close/half working)
I'll probably be on Arch for the next years at least
Going the Debian stable route seems fun until you need literally anything that isn't in the repos, and 200 of your libraries are too out of date to even build it. Compiling things and "make install" is so messy anyway I don't want to bother compiling outside a package system. I'll never use Flatpak ever either.