[wvh]

Well, run something rolling such as Arch Linux or Debian Unstable on desktop, and an LTS distribution such as Ubuntu LTS or Debian Stable on servers. If you're not a complete beginner, there are many benefits to run a distribution that tracks upstream closely so you can contribute and get fixes almost immediately.

If you need local development/production environment version parity, use container images or package locking files available in most programming language ecosystems.

[mftb]

Indeed, agree. I'm on a rolling distro (Manjaro) and I'm pretty happy. I see a lot of discontent in Linux land around this conflict though, so I though I would try to lay it out. Example a lot of people don't like the practice of curl'ing shell scripts on to their boxes, that many developer tools like Rust and Deno use for installing their tooling. The more server oriented folks see it as border-line crazy, while many developers are totally fine with it. Clearly to me they're coming at the issue from different points of view and it would be nice to fully support both communities.