Requirements:
- Must be more user friendly than LFS
- Must not be in the RHEL/IBM family/stream or derivative
- Must not be SLES or derivative
- Does not make you install a desktop environment
- Must have steam
Hopes
- Rolling release
- Has a package manager of some sort
- Doesn’t require manual intervention every six months
- Maintainers aren’t psycho
If you want it to be more friendly than LFS, but not by too much, take a look at Gentoo.
Main feature is the ease of compiling software instead of grabbing binary packages, so, update times can get a bit out of hand depending on what you want on your system.