I haven’t had any issues with Windows breaking for almost a decade now.
That’s because I don’t use Windows 
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I’m tempted to mark that as the solution even though it is not a solution to my first question 
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cough…Deepin…cough 
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Read my comment above, just substitute “Deepin” for “Windows”, and “ever” for “for almost a decade” 
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Well you could go further and run the Arch testing repros i’ve used the for a few years they are mainly stable mind you just a rollback once or twice a year.
This is a major factor only use what you need clean and mean gives me real stability, Saying that after using the same system for many years you know what does and does not work for you, the limit of your hardware, and the distro.
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OpenSUSE was actually one of the first, if not the first, distro I used on a daily basis. This has been many, many years ago of course but I was definitely happy with it. If you’re wanting something stable, I’d go for the Leap Edition. Now Fedora on the other hand acts as something of a test-bed for RHEL, and I suppose could be considered a “semi”-rolling release. If you’re interested about learning more about Linux Systems Administration, I would highly recommend becoming familiar with Fedora. At least in the U.S., most if not all companies that I’ve personally worked with that use Linux also use RHEL. I have heard however (although I cannot personally attest), that SUSE is more prevalent in Europe at the enterprise level. Also, YaST is an amazing tool to learn.
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That’s true. I’ve tried opensuse and fedora for a few months before being spoiled by manjaro and soon EOS. I basically started on Ubuntu, then went to Opensuse, then fedora, then manjaro, and now probably back to Ubuntu with EOS on my machine and Ubuntu on the others. But I really enjoyed YaST, it offers so much in fact I wish other distros had a similar tool.
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Everything is stable if you leave it alone for the most part! But, most of us can’t help ourselves. Always trying something else, something new, something different. That’s the beauty of Linux! Not being tied down to a proprietary eco system that limits your choices forcing you to use rather than choose and make your own decisions. You just have to accept the fact that no matter how good you are or how well you set it up one day there will be an issue. Software isn’t infallible and there are always hardware problems…eventually! I like rolling! Lts in the past has always been too far back in the pack but now it’s much closer. 
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So fun fact about myself. I have never used Ubuntu as a daily driver (at least on the desktop). I know a lot of Linux users get their feet wet with Ubuntu or an Ubuntu-based distro like Mint, but other than using a Debian and Ubuntu VPS in the past, I have almost no experience with it. I probably should fire up a VM one day to just to learn a bit.
I totally agree, even Windows is quite easy to mess up if you don’t know what your doing. The only difference is that in Linux, you can recover from your mess ups by typing a few commands. In Windows however, “try reinstalling!” I also appreciate the fact that most Linux drivers are on par or better than Windows!
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Having used Linux for over 20 years now I can certainly say that this amazes me so much. I luckily get to mess with a lot of different computer hardware and peripherals that I get from my work, and I love the fact that almost every single piece of hardware I can just plug it in and go, with minimal fuss. The only minor headache that I’ve run in to recently has been with RGB-intergrated hardware like Corsair fans, controllers, and AIOs,
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The amazing guys over at openrgb got you covered! They let me control my Asus leds!
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I have a soft spot for it because of several reasons, but the main one is that it was the very first distro I ever tried in earnest back in 2006, back when it was still just Suse. I bought the disc and the 200 page manual.
It ran very well, but getting the distro hopping bug I switched first to Ubuntu (which was just making it big back then, all the glossy Linux magazines were featuring it all the time), then Debian, Debian testing and finally Mint (which was very new at the time as well obviously since it was based on Ubuntu. Cinnamon didn’t even exist, it was just Gnome 2 with a special menu).
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I actually really like open suse rolling release Tumbleweed KDE desktop or Xfce or Cinnamon too!
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Are they on holiday, perhaps? Everything I see in the AUR is flagged out-of-date 
Too bad - I have an Asus board, Corsair keyboard and mouse, and was thinking of an AIO cooler… 
How are you finding the Corsair keyboard on boot with rEFInd. I can’t seem to get mine to allow the arrow keys to make a selection on rEFInd.
No problem - once I switched up how my KVM was hooked up Basically I use a USB 3.0 switch for both Kb and Mouse - I suspect it is the n-key rollover overwhelming lesser USB ports.
On the other hand, it could change tomorrow…
Well i just hooked it back up as i had set it aside for a while. I now have my three drives loaded with the BTRFSonLUKS set up by @2000 which i like because they are all separate and when i boot up the grub only has the entries for the desktop or OS on that drive. So i am using rEFInd and it boots to that first and then when i select the desktop you have to decrypt the drive first then it opens and boots to the grub menu. So the keyboard seems to be working great this way and i like the fact that i don’t have all the entries in grub for every OS or desktop. They all stay separate and don’t bother each other. The only other way i might like it better is without encryption. But, i still haven’t figured out that one yet even though it supposedly is easy to change. I’ll get there eventually with a little help from my friends. But for now i really like this setup even though i don’t totally understand all the ins and outs of it! 
I’ve never broken Manjaro or Endeavour. They both seem rock solid to me and have excellent forums
Before I switched to Arch based I tried nearly all of the popular fixed release distros based on Debian with KDE
My two favorites were KDE Neon and Kubuntu
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I have never broken an Arch install unless I have experimented with something.
Same with Manjaro, however it has broken a few times by itself (aka an update that wasn’t tested properly, I assume). Oddly enough I had far far fewer problems running on Testing Branch of Manjaro than running on Stable. Not sure why.
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