You still need to enable third-party repositories like RPMFusion on Fedora for a lot of packages, which may annoy the average beginner. Immutability is really not an issue for most use cases, and if it is then Nobara also exists.
But realistically, outdated packages is not usually due to using the APT package manager
No outdated package is the fault of the package manager. The software in Mint’s (and also Debian’s) apt repositories are just old because they are long-term support distros.
You still need to enable third-party repositories like RPMFusion on Fedora for a lot of packages, which may annoy the average beginner. Immutability is really not an issue for most use cases, and if it is then Nobara also exists.
No outdated package is the fault of the package manager. The software in Mint’s (and also Debian’s) apt repositories are just old because they are long-term support distros.