| I've been using Gentoo Linux (which is also a rolling-release distro) since the early 2000s (maybe 2002?). Even taking into account the libpng upgrade disaster in the early-to-mid 2000s, it's the most sane, most stable, least-trouble-free distro I've used. I've wanted to find some other good distro, but all the ones I've tried either a) Only ship ancient packages in their official repositories, requiring me to go to unofficial sources to get oh so many up-to-date versions of things. b) Inevitably do something pants-on-head retarded as part of normal operation (nearly always during upgrades) and require me to bust out my Linux sysadmin skills to unwedge the system or (sometimes) both "a)" and "b)". You don't like rolling-release distros? That's fine, more power to you. They've been working fine for me for (oh dear god, I'm so old) ~20 years. |
Gentoo testing (aka ~arch) does come with occasional surprises (although most common is some package update failing to build) but still worth it compared to having to deal with big updates or even reinstalls.