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Oh that's where you are wrong.... Arch is actually really special. No other distro comes close to being so easy to install the latest version of software. I've run almost all major Debian based linuxes also and they are mostly frustrating in comparison.
You just can't find the software you need, or you have to download it manually, meaning it's not even updated by your package manager. People resort to flatpak and the likes just to be able to have the software they need since it's not packaged in any other way.
Arch is just better and I highly recommend it.
cough Tumbleweed
I'm not new to Linux, I know what arch is. And Debian isnt the only alternative to arch. Like I said every Major distribution has community repositories.
Ubuntu has packstall, Fedora rpm fusion, opensuse probably has some aswell, void has community repositories in xbps. And guess what they are all pretty up to date.
I'm not going to install a Linux distro based on the community repository, I'm not even running any of the major distro, because I don't care what packages are available. I have a few programs that I run, and it's not that hard to make other programs work, when you know what to do.