[rjh29]

I've spent a couple of hours a few times a year having to maintain my OS so far. I vastly prefer this to Ubuntu, where pretty much everything broke every 6 months.

The tradeoff is that you get new and shiny software continually.

[meaty]

Try Debian stable. I've had a single installation last for 13 years so far.

New and shiny is considerably less important than working and tested the first time something breaks.

[rjh29]

I moved to Arch because I was prepared to accept breakage in return for having the latest software. Debian stable is pretty much the exact opposite.