I run Debian Linux on dozens of (different roles) VMs and physical servers, all managed by Ansible.
On my desktops/laptops, I run Debian Stable, but I feel it is too old for development/common desktop usage, and I waste lots of time manually installing Python/Go/Rust tools.
I am a competent Arch Linux user too, having used for a decade. It has all the tools I need on the latest version, but lately I just shy away from it because it moves too fast and the constant feeling of a "moving target" that can break anytime. Interestingly, in a decade of usage, I only have a couple of big problems that were fixed in less than half an hour, so that fear might be because I'm getting old and a bit lazy...
I switched to Manjaro after becoming a father. It's based on Arch Linux. The installation is as fast and guided as an Ubuntu installation. But you get Pacman and AUR. Manjaro is still a rolling release, but they have a bit of delay. They let test ArchLinux users first. So over all it's the most stable, easy to use and uptodate Distribution I ever had.
For development you don't want to use the distros tools anyways. The distro packages are there primarily to build the other packages, they also provide the basics of a development environment suitable for small tasks and testing. For more serious development you want a level of control over your tooling that distro packages just can't provide (NixOS being the only exception I know about).
This is why most languages have their own compiler/runtime distributions and module/package system.
On my desktops/laptops, I run Debian Stable, but I feel it is too old for development/common desktop usage, and I waste lots of time manually installing Python/Go/Rust tools.
I am a competent Arch Linux user too, having used for a decade. It has all the tools I need on the latest version, but lately I just shy away from it because it moves too fast and the constant feeling of a "moving target" that can break anytime. Interestingly, in a decade of usage, I only have a couple of big problems that were fixed in less than half an hour, so that fear might be because I'm getting old and a bit lazy...