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If you say Debian's and OpenSUSE's package manager are too complex for you, I can tell you that NixOS' package manager is definitely not for you.
Hannah Montana Linux.
if Hannah Montana Linux is to complicated, then Uwuntu
This is always correct.
This excludes Debian where the package manager is too complex and packages deviate from upstream too much
This isn't even remotely true.
Also going with Debian + GNOME Software + Flatpak isn't a bad ideia at all. Unlike Snaps, Flatpaks are fast you won't notice delays and waste 10GB of RAM for each application you want to use. And at the end of the day you get rock solid Debian + the latest and greatest software as Flatpaks without "deviation from upstream" and you also keep a clean system.
You've picked pretty stupid criteria, but if you're adamant on it, as another commenter said Slackware is probably one of the best options.
Fedora dances with Flatpak quite a bit, but you could double check if RHEL does (since that's what Fedora is based on).
Again, while Slackware (and possibly RHEL) fit your criteria, your criteria seems pretty silly, and you're likely to walk into bigger (and harder to solve) problems on more obscure platforms.
If apt is too complex for you, I don't know what to tell you...
I feel like you're confusing "hard to use" with "complex".
Apt is extremely complex under the hood, which shows when you try to build a package for it, or install a package with many dependencies then remove it again, leaving traces behind, or when you break your system by using different front-ends (apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic) which are all included in the default installation, but handle dependencies differently.
Most modern package managers have that level of complexity tho... That dependency tracking can take a lot of computation.
Maybe a notable exception would be Slackware package manager, but you won't find what you'd expect from modern package manager (e.g. dependency resolving, autoremove package).
I find building packages with Gentoo to be much simpler than with Debian. Probably this is due to the fact that Gentoo users would regularly build their packages, unlike Debian.
I also learned Debian automatically generate dependency list by scanning the binaries of each package to see what dynamic libs it links. Bet that does add to the complexity by much.
Slackware. It'll take a bit of getting used to but it meets your criteria.
I was going to say the same
I have the same recommendation, try slack out it really feets.
But I think it will be like Genie fullfiling your wishes - you don't really know what you are looking for, but it might really suit you.
On OpenSuse, sudo zypper install package-name
Not too complex if you ask me.
Slackware is obvious choice, exactly what you are looking for.
It was my first distro and I miss it a lot. Simplicity and stability are main selling points.
I haven't used it myself, and admittedly am entirely unfamiliar, but a buddy put popos on something recently and was talking about how smooth and simple it was. Might be worth a gander.
PopOS is Debian based, which has apt as a package manager (OP no likey likey).
Slackware is the solution then clearly.
Linux mint
Same package manager as Debian, isn't it? Which OP said is too complex.
There's also GUI package manager, if you want to use that.
Which he also mentioned he doesn't like to depend on.
After a hiatus in Mac and windows land, I came back into Linux a with similar wishlist.
It's quite a diversion, but I actually went with FreeBSD. Now it's not Linux but with the separation of base system and packages, you get a stable base that is released at a pretty fixed consistent schedule.
For packages you can pick from quarterly or weekly update schedule, so you can have a stable base OS with bleeding edge software. The binary package manager is easy to use, but if you want more control you can opt for building from source as well.
The init system is BSD based so all main config goes into a single rc.conf file, very easy to understand and work with.
Most mainstream applications such as Firefox, postgresql, nginx etc are just a pkg install away and it natively supports zfs (even as root fs) which was one of the reasons I got really interested in it 10 years ago.
Of course, there is software, especially some younger projects that don't support FreeBSD. So while there are thousands of packages available, some Linux only applications won't work.
Personally, I would pick FreeBSD any time that the software I require supports it. I only run Linux (settled on pop is for now) if the software I need requires it.
Thank you for one of the few helpful answers in this thread.
Have you tried macos? Seriously though, in Debian you just type 'sudo apt install program,' that is about as simple as it gets. Also opensuse allows you to not install yast with like 2 clicks in the installer, and all the GUI tools are just wrappers for terminal tools that they also include. I am not saying this to be insulting, but I honestly don't think you know enough about Linux to know what you are looking for. If you do want to try Linux, just try a beginner distro like mint.
Edit: upon reading some comments, I see that you mean apt is complicated under the hood, not difficult to use. You could try gentoo if you don't mind long installs. It compiles from source so that is about as simple as package management gets.
Mac OSX
Void linux with its xbps package manager might match with your requirements.
Then solus with its eopkg package manager which I might wait like next year to try it.
NixOS as a daily driver is really good
It doesn't quite fit your fixed release requirement, but have you checked out void? It's like arch, but has no systemd and it's more stable then arch
Alpine Linux!
I am 100% serious when I say pick one off of this list: https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
Debian apt repositories is too complex?!?