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Anything that isn't Arch.
And for distros I won't consider trying:
Just wanna add ZorinOS packages get updated regularly - at least faster than Ubuntu and Mint. Very good analysis btw
The main package I was thinking of was the kernel. I saw the recent Linux Experiment video by Nick and they were using a kernel version (6.1?) that was no longer supported nor an LTS.
This is good to know. I'm more into rolling releases like Arch, Fedora, and openSUSE anyway, so the latest Ubuntu's packages tend to be a bit old for me anyway.
I'm not really recommending it over Arch, but my favorite rolling Debian distro is Siduction.