@sun @anemone he's not wrong about it tripping up first time users, but he's 100% wrong about the OS's package manager solving all problems somehow.

e.g., RHEL distros have a very tiny amount of first-party mainained packages compared to Debian

The availability of software without having to custom compile it yourself or fetch it from some 3rd party website is what made me a FreeBSD user (after being a Gentoo user that escaped from Debian)