[danShumway]

I put some of my family members on Ubuntu, it worked about as well as Windows ever did, but was hard to keep up-to-date, and every change I made to get them more recent software was a complication for future support. The end result was that they had a stable computer but one that was difficult to make do new things.

Last straw was jumping through the hoops to get proper Vulkan support on their video card for a game running through Wine. I switched them over to EndeavourOS and it's been loads easier, a lot of stuff works out-of-the-box specifically because it's a rolling release.

I think people sometimes underestimate how important it can be to be able to get OS/software patches immediately. Flatpak helps a little bit with that as well, some of the difficulty with Ubuntu was resolving dependencies -- but even with that, a lot of that difficulty came from trying to get bleeding edge or self-compiled software working with dependencies that just weren't updated yet in the Debian repos.

I spent a while worrying about whether being on Arch would mean everything would be unstable, but I've had the opposite experience, in practice it just means I have to break fewer things to get software running.