May be a mean sounding question, but I’m genuinely wondering why people would choose Arch/Endevour/whatever (NOT on steam hardware) over another all-in-one distro related to Fedora or Ubuntu. Is it shown that there are significant performance benefits to installing daemons and utilities à la carte? Is there something else I’m missing? Is it because arch users are enthusiasts that enjoy trying to optimize their system?
dmf does way better conflict resolution though. In Arch you often have to clean up after pacman.
In the AUR maybe. I certainly have had to trim lots of old electron and other bloat.
My favourite package manager is APK 3. No clean-up required there almost by definition.