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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.
that's why i ended up with a "rolling release". No more iteration problems :)
Tumbleweed. 😋
i know know of opensuse and redhat/centos's rolling release; do you know of others?
arch
Solus.