I’ve kind of shifted my thinking on all this over the past year. I used to use Arch since I wanted bleeding edge access to features. This would always eventually leads to something breaking, and headaches fixing.

I’ve since been using pop_os, and moving over to the flatpak and NixOS ecosystems to stay on top of the latest package versions, while having a more stable and tested base. It’s working for me, I don’t worry about my system borking all the time, and I get plenty of new package updates to satisfy that want.