Maybe what I’m looking for is the holy grail, but what do you guys suggest as a Distro with a good balance between stability and up-to-date packages?

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openSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s not stable as in unchanging but it is stable as in reliable.

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This or Fedora which per release cycle aims for binary compatibility but happily updates packages if compatibility stays fine.

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Having tried many over the years, there is truly nothing as good as Tumbleweed.

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@blackstripes @MyNameIsRichard this one is also great out of the context! (sorry!)

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+1 for Tumbleweed, it works so incredibly well. In the very rare case where an update doesn’t work out for you, you can easily roll back to a previous btrfs snapshot.

Fedora is quite nice, too, but I’ve come to prefer rolling distros over a release based one.

Kalpa / Aeon might be interesting, too, if your use case fits an immutable distro.

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+1 openSUSE Tumbleweed is my favourite here too.

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After many years on Ubuntu I switched to a Tumbleweed and couldn’t be happier. Apparently a rolling distro can be more reliable than a traditional point-release one.

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