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Have you considered a fixed release in combination with rolling applications (i. e. Flatpak, Snap)?
If you choose Fedora (preferably one of the atomic variants, like Silverblue), you would also get a rolling kernel and rolling KDE Plasma desktop, so overall the experience can be quite close to a rolling release distribution if you install the desktop applications via Flatpak.
Ubuntu "interim" (non-LTS) releases are usually also fairly current and could be a good choice if you don't mind Snap. There's also the option of following the Ubuntu "devel" branch, which always refers to the current pre-release version of Ubuntu (e. g. 24.04 at the moment) and is rolling.
Just wanted to give you a different direction to think about. ;)
thanks I haven't known about it but I have Opensuse Tumbleweed for gaming use and endeavour os for the aur
Just FYI, if you like EndeavourOS, you should know that it's essentially an installer for Vanilla Arch (unlike Majaro which is Arch-based).
So you may have just had bad luck when you tried Vanilla Arch that you didn't have with EndeavourOS -- but there's no real difference between the 2 besides manual vs GUI installer.
Depending on what you want, OpenSUSE's OBS is a great alternative to the AUR. It works by building software given a script, so you still just download binary packages, unlike the AUR where you download build scripts.
I honestly haven't needed much since switching from Arch to openSUSE, though I've played with some OBS packages here and there. I used to maintain some AUR packages, and I haven't needed to on Tumbleweed.
Give it a shot, you probably don't need both. I prefer Tumbleweed these days, but I've used Tumbleweed and Arch both for about the same amount of time (5-ish years) and can recommend both.