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I would highly advise against rolling release distribution of Linux. Please hear me out. The idea behind having a rolling release is that your upgrades happen

I would highly advise against rolling release distribution of Linux. Please hear me out. The idea behind having a rolling release is that your upgrades happen in small chunks and therefore the breakages are small and manageable. The problem? The can come in anytime. When you do LTS release upgrades for example, you know when you have to do that and can do proper preparations and set aside time to do it. While the rolling distro upgrades work fine most of the time, the odd time it doesn't takes away all the supposed benefits... and it can happen at a time you're not prepared for.

ohazi 6y ago
For servers? Yeah, I'd agree with you. For desktops / laptops, I think either approach can work, depending on your personal preferences. If you prefer a big update that you can schedule, and are okay with setting aside a few days every year or two, and are okay with a repository that gives you "stable" application software that may be quite old, then a release-based distribution might work better for you. If you'd rather deal with smaller updates, and if you like having a repository that delivers application software updates closer to when they're released upstream, then a rolling release might work better for you.
dxdm 6y ago
Nobody's forcing you to upgrade anytime. Don't run upgrades just before you need your computer to work. I do upgrades once or twice a week, when I know I have time to fix if anything breaks. Maybe once a year I need to spend a couple of minutes to manually fix a problem, like re-running the updater with a special flag, or deleting a certain file. The steps are usually to be found on the distro's home page, announced in the mailung list or posted in a forum dedicated to updating. It's really not a big deal.