If you like Plasma or one of the other supported desktops, I suggest trying Siduction for this.
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My choices would be :- Fedora Debian testing Void linux
openSUSE and Fedora
Funtoo is a bit of both. It's not as current as Gentoo but the tradeoff is not having to rebuild the toolchain every few weeks.
Guix is a source based (rolling release) distro. Any package operation you do like like installing, updating, or removing, can be rolled back. So if an update ever breaks anything you can just roll-back and wait for the fix. You can even pin that specific package and continue to upgrade the rest of your system. And every state is saved in a generation, so you can go to any state your system has ever been in package/configuration wise.
Nix has all of these advantages as well.
VanillaOS is pretty much what you're asking for. The only real downside right now is that Orchid probably won't have KDE support out of the gate
Manjaro OS is stable and gives upto date packages seems this should meet your requirements.
I use manjaro, but it isn't what I would call stable.
Manjaro's delayed package system can actually make things less stable if you use AUR. I'd recommend EndeavourOS for that experience, it's very similar to Manjaro but in my experience hasn't broken as much
The holy grail, stable and up-to-date, it exists, it's called Debian with Flatpaks.
Install Debian. Avoid doing any changes to your package selection, try to get things from flatpaks.
This is my preferred way off doing things, but trying to glue VSCode + Android Studio + the Flutter SDK + Docker + ... together via Flatpack was an exercise in pain and sadness last time I tried it.
Getting all my normal boring desktop apps via Flatpack is awesome, but for a developer it just doesn't seem practical right now
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I recommend using Manjaro KDE.
Gentoo, obviously.
I use it since it works. But it also has up to date packages. Number of times I tried moving away from it and it is just not possible.
I use Mint on side-desktop (one with graphic card I use for gaming and deep learning) and while it is easy to use it also has old software, python is stuck on 3.7 or 3.8 so it is becoming unusable even.
Will gentoo give you some problems? Probably, but those are always solvable and you will spend less time on other stuff.
Devuan testing branch.
My vote goes to KDE Neon. Or Pop OS but I really like Neon! I tried using Manjaro with KDE for a few months but it's just nowhere near as simple as Debian based distros. Never realized how convenient .deb packages were until I couldn't use them lol
Did you try AUR?
I did for a while and I got some stuff to run pretty easily! I actually really liked the way pamac and pacman work but then I started getting a bunch of errors about a corrupt database. I found a way to fix it for pacman but pamac was still broken and I could not for the life of me figure out how to fix it so I took the noob route and ran back to Debian lol