It's weird how wildly different " The one that just works" Can be from person to person. Every time I try to use Debian lately, it's a broken adventure like you're describing, but Arch has been 100% stable for me. I'm running EndeavorOS on my desktop and my laptop and nothing is broken. It just updates and it works. You talk to other people and they have the actual opposite experience. It doesn't really make much sense. It should be an objective thing, but it doesn't seem to be.