OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

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Tumbleweed

I love openSUSE Tumbleweed. It has a solid automated testing process that means packages will be held back rather than updating and breaking things.

Most Linux distributions are quite reliable, even rolling ones. What usually causes instability are the closed source applications people choose to run on them.

I'm not just pointing out nVidia drivers, I've seen Teams and Visual Studio Code crash an otherwise stable Ubuntu LTS.

I've been running the same arch install for atleast 5 years... I honestly can't recommend any other distro because I haven't used many for a long enough period of time

I have used debian for 20 years, I am very happy with it. Also zero problems with gaming nowadays

NixOS because you can roll back when anything breaks, install stable versions of packages, and put your configuration in version control

I mean it's not really rolling, but since this is Linux Gaming, I recommend checking out Nobara Linux. It's a Fedora fork made by GloriousEggroll of the proton-GE fame. It's the easiest Linux gaming experience I've had so far, at least with the non-modified Gnome version.

IMHO, you should avoid KDE -- I've had nothing but bad experiences there -- but if that's your favourite poison go ahead.

https://nobaraproject.org/

Have you considered a fixed release in combination with rolling applications (i. e. Flatpak, Snap)?

If you choose Fedora (preferably one of the atomic variants, like Silverblue), you would also get a rolling kernel and rolling KDE Plasma desktop, so overall the experience can be quite close to a rolling release distribution if you install the desktop applications via Flatpak.

Ubuntu "interim" (non-LTS) releases are usually also fairly current and could be a good choice if you don't mind Snap. There's also the option of following the Ubuntu "devel" branch, which always refers to the current pre-release version of Ubuntu (e. g. 24.04 at the moment) and is rolling.

Just wanted to give you a different direction to think about. ;)

Happy Tumbleweed user here, since 2006!

Debian Liquorix kernel Flatpak the apps

just use arch and don't do anything stupid (like not updating regularly)

Debian hands down delivers the most stable experience of em all -- even after updating from stable to sid.

t. Did exactly that on a unsupported sbc, "Orange pi zero 3", and everything works.

Debian testing or unstable.

If you want a desktop distro up to date with kernel, DE, etc. which does't crash I can advice Fedora. Aftet the six month release cycle it is easy to update. I used it for a couple of years on my home pc and it was very good.

I'm curious -- what's your motivation for doing this?

Why do you want to use a rolling release over something built for gaming?

I'd say Tumbleweed is what you're looking for. They have some sort of automated testing process (OpenQA, I think) and are far more stable than Arch, while oftentimes having newer versions of packages before Arch.