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If the goal is to have the most up to date bleeding edge software, but have it on a critical machine, consider immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue or OpenSuse Aeon. Especially the latter will be just days behind Arch, and if an update breaks something you just roll back and try updating again in a week.
I used Silverblue as my main work system and this saved me a few times.
Yeahh immutable system is the way, I spent so much energy reinstalling systems that felt dirty and slow or just distro hopping. Then I tried NixOS believe me I'm not going anywhere else
can you rollback on boot like with NixOS? This is one feature I found really cool, but NixOS itself completely turns me off. They have several bootloader entries where you could just boot into a previous system configuration, which is not a filesystem snapshot like with grub-btrfs+pacman-boot-backup-hook or similar.
Yup, and I believe it even does it automatically if it fails to reach the desktop for a number of boots in a row.