zyd, 
So uh, whats a distro that's like Fedora where shit usually just works and it has up to date packages but IS NOT bleeding edge?
Ruled out:
- Gentoo
- Arch
- Debian
- Ubuntu
- nix
- Guix (I like to install this on top of a base distro)
Bonus if its well maintained as a community project and is not a corporate frontend (i.e Fedora->Red Hat).