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Arch. There’s the problem. 😆
Fedora and Tumbleweed keep up with Arch while being easier to maintain. Fedora is a semi-rolling release, and Tumbleweed is rolling release. Both are much more stable than Arch is.
Arch is great for people who want to tinker with their desktop/laptop install. I do not, so I run Fedora.
Run Fedora or Tumbleweed. They will be continuously updated, and an install will last years.
Your basis for comparison is Arch which is known to be highly unstable and a handful to maintain. 😆
For my work, I need different OSes and distros for testing. If someone needs a stable distro for something, a VM or container will work. There are ways around the needing a stable.
Also, containers aren’t a penalty.
You can break the cycle. Just because some you suffered doesn’t mean others have to. 🙂
Everyone says they’re going to clean up their profiles, but no one does. 😆
I have that because I run through so many test servers and temp installs.
Then there are Ansible playbooks to setup my systems.
They can only dream about keeping up, TW especially from what I've seen, and that just proves my point: arch is harder to maintain because it's more up to date.
Also, I ran fedora for a few weeks after giving up on arch, it failed to boot multiple times after an update, and programs would randomly stop working after a reboot. I somehow had none of those issues on nobara.
It will break more often, and if you only use it to browse you'll still get all the updates you need if you used a stable distro. The only thing you're missing out on is testing the newest version of the DE. I've installed fedora for a friend like that, but I'm pretty sure it was a mistake even though they haven't had any issues so far.
I need stable because I want my machine always to work. There's no going around that if you're running rhel on top of fedora, if fedora craps out you're not getting to rhel. Specific compatibility requirements are different story, and I agree with you on that.
My basis is that I've been using linux for close to 20 years, and have tried every popular distro. In that time, only stable distros like debian never crashed or failed to boot.
But you do take a performance penalty when using them...
I literally did it the other day, made a cup of coffee, and finished with both around the same time. The only thing I had to suffer through was waiting for files to transfer to and from an external drive. And I'll survive that easily if it means I'll avoid possible bugs and performance impacts.
Sweet, makes sense really