@mitchconner @nyanide Except for the whole rolling release minor detail.
Your community resources are indeed awesome, as a Debian and for a little while Ubuntu user (when it was trailing in becoming PoetteringOS/Linux) I've found them quite valuable, but as I understand it they're needed to recover from rolling release problems.
Some of us ... @Elliptica and I are scientists at heart ... just want to get shit done with our computers, whatever sysadmin knowledge we have. For me it can get tiresome after almost half a century starting with UNIX™.