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I know I know, another "help me choose a distro" thread
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Talking for myself and not OP: What's complex about apt and yum is the package format per se. The cli is very straightforward and "just works", but whenever you want something that's not packaged and need to package it yourself, you gotta fasten your seatbelt and prepare for the complex task of creating an RPM or a DEB package.
I know there are tools to help with that, but I've created packages for many distros (Debian, CentOS, Alpine, Arch, Void and Crux), and rpm/deb are just way more complex to create than the alternatives.
This guy gets it.
How often does that happen--where you need to package your own deb or it leaving orphan meta-packages that it doesn't remove? Or is this more of a 'curiosity' than hard requirement because I think ultimately the short answer to your question is: I dont think it exists as you've described it.
Fedora Silverblue seems like it might get close. It's immutable OS with flatpaks that sit on top. At least that's my understanding of it since I haven't used it myself. I have NixOS in a VM so I could learn it and NixOS is similar in that its immutable, but its definitely complex. Its also hard to use--which is a distinction you are making in this thread as well. So I am not sure its 'better' than any of those others in the grand scheme of things. In my limited experience with it as a pretty advanced linux user, it would probably be a solid daily driver after you spent 2 years tuning your config to your liking. But simple things will have your tripping over yourself.
It has the learning curve of vim and the expression language is a bit annoying since its a special unique thing you have to learn. Its not exactly hard but its not intuitive either and the documentation isn't super approachable even if everyone says its great.
One of those immutable OS's with flatpak on top would probably be the closet I think you can get to what you are asking.
That's how many software I packaged myself. They are installed to
/usr/localusing an alternative package manager because I couldn't be bothered with making an appropriate .deb.And as to explain how this alternate workflow is less complex, here's how I go about installing a program: