Current Gentoo user. I find the opposite. Using unstable, things just work. Sometimes package updates fail to compile but your system is still fine, and the pac

Current Gentoo user. I find the opposite. Using unstable, things just work. Sometimes package updates fail to compile but your system is still fine, and the package will get fixed eventually. Never had an update break my system on unstable. Stable often had issues, which I presume is due to devs mostly working on unstable.