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To me, it gives Devuan, OpenSUSE, Rocky, Debian, Artix and Arch.
What I have used in the past 27 years is S.U.S.E., Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, OpenSUSE Leap and Arch (the latter for some years dual-booting with Debian until NVidia shit broke both after a Debian dist upgrade, but that was only once in 13 years). I never had a stability issue with Arch.
What I currently use is Debian as daily driver, with both Guix package manager on top of it for programming, and Arch in a VM (with Guix for programming with dependencies). And importantly, I only use fully supported hardware.
I could imagine using Arch as a daily base system, or using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as a base or in a VM. But I don't have strong incentives to switch the base, Debian works incredibly well for me and I know how to configure it.