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you must have read my mind because this is exactly why i'm on the market for a new distro. lol
i put fedora on my laptop w the intention that it'll be temporary so that i'll have something i can trust right now and knowing full well that fedora iterates quickly. their migration tool has never worked for me and now i have to update again. i'm looking for something that has a longer term iteration like debian has, but shorter than debian.
there are distros that run on debian sid, if you prefer debian as a distro, but want a more up to date experience.
im running pika os, because it offers up to date gaming tweaks, but doesnt force you to update as often. keep in mind: that os is not something i would recommend for a environment where stability is the goal, because there are only a few maintainers. its just an example of debian sid!
i suspect that i'm looking for something that doesn't exist; the iteration has be less frequent than fedora, but more frequent that debian.
someone else recommended a rolling release so i think i'll give that a shot.
that's why i ended up with a "rolling release". No more iteration problems :)
i know know of opensuse and redhat/centos's rolling release; do you know of others?
arch
Solus.
Tumbleweed. 😋