Perhaps the sweet spot is “stable rolling release” like SuSE Tumbleweed Slowroll or Void Linux?
In any case, I am using both Debian and Arch for 15 and 10 years and had a bit less problems with Arch on the Desktop than with Debian.
I believe the key point is perhaps backwards compatibilty, not freezing system parts; and rolling release systems seem to foster backward compatibility. To underline that: When did you worry the last time that a Linux kernel version bumb would break your system?
I think the best of both worlds, assuming you don’t need rebootless updating, is the distros that act as immutable for any given update set, but allow updates ala rolling release and just cache the previous image. This way you have the newest packages while having an easy recovery method if the update breaks things
Perhaps the sweet spot is “stable rolling release” like SuSE Tumbleweed Slowroll or Void Linux?
In any case, I am using both Debian and Arch for 15 and 10 years and had a bit less problems with Arch on the Desktop than with Debian.
I believe the key point is perhaps backwards compatibilty, not freezing system parts; and rolling release systems seem to foster backward compatibility. To underline that: When did you worry the last time that a Linux kernel version bumb would break your system?
Last month, but that’s cuz I’m an idiot still stuck with Nvidia drivers
Do yourself a favour. I am so glad I got rid of NVidia stuff.
I think the best of both worlds, assuming you don’t need rebootless updating, is the distros that act as immutable for any given update set, but allow updates ala rolling release and just cache the previous image. This way you have the newest packages while having an easy recovery method if the update breaks things