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Nobody is mad at this thread. My reply has valid points and is trying to help the guy asking this question. The question can't be answered in a straightforward manner as he wants it to be. Therefore I recommend him to specify some things, so we can help him better find the right distribution.
I recommend to learn what a rolling release, a LTS, the difference between stable and unstable are. In example LTS means holding back lot of packages, but the minor or security updates might be quick. Feature updates are often slower, but that does not mean the updates on the distribution are slow. Let's take distributions with KDE in example. Some are still on version 5, because of LTS, but the updates might be quick. Others might have a newer version of KDE 6, but the updates itself might be often lagging behind official releases, because they have to make lot of changes.
Therefore its important to specify what he wants to find, so we can help him better. Not mad, just trying to help. Don't make this awkward.
IIRC Beehaw doesn't federate downvotes. The OP has been pretty heavily downvoted for no valid reason