so a common claim I see made is that arch is up to date than Debian but harder to maintain and easier to break. Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?

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    1 month ago

    Save yourself some trouble and run something for servers. You can even setup automatic updates with reboots so you can set it up and forget. I did that with a Debian machine and I forgot about it for a terrifyingly long time. It just auto updated and patched itself when new updates hit.

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      1 month ago

      Same. I checked on my Debian VPS the other day after many months of negligence and, sure enough, everything was up to date and secure thanks to unattended-upgrades with the reboot option enabled.