> This will occasionally lead to problems, but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed. And in the long run, your system will age better. This is the reason

> This will occasionally lead to problems, but they tend to be temporary and easily fixed. And in the long run, your system will age better. This is the reason I love archlinux. Most of the time, updates are no big deal. Sometimes, they break the system. Rolling release distros force you to deal with each change as it happens, usually with a warning that breakage is about to happen, and a guide for how to quickly deal with it. Once the system is up and running, basic periodic maintenance will keep it that way. In the past, I've used arch machines continuously for 5+ years and they work great and stay up to date. Compare to intermittent release distros like Ubuntu. Every time I need to update an ubuntu machine, I end up reinstalling from scratch and configuring from the ground up. There are too many things that need tweaking or simply break between when releases are 6-24 months apart. And I'm not convinced that locking down dependencies actually solve anything. Wait six months after an LTS release, when you need to get the latest version of some package. Suddenly, you are rummaging through random blog posts and repos trying to find the updated package. PPAs, Flatpacks, Snaps, oh my! Intermittent distros offload a lot of their responsibility onto users by pretending like package update problems don't exist.