Debian + unattended upgrades + modern package managers for non-system-installed software covers your bases very well.
Debian packages are downstream enough from their sources that the packaging delay keeps you safe (and means the updates have had human eyes on them before they hit you). Unattended upgrades means you don’t have to worry about running the upgrades yourself.
Pip, npm, and the other big package managers now also support dependency cooldowns on their recent releases, but uv and pnpm pioneered that and cover you for older release environments.
Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.
Debian + unattended upgrades + modern package managers for non-system-installed software covers your bases very well.
Debian packages are downstream enough from their sources that the packaging delay keeps you safe (and means the updates have had human eyes on them before they hit you). Unattended upgrades means you don’t have to worry about running the upgrades yourself.
Pip, npm, and the other big package managers now also support dependency cooldowns on their recent releases, but uv and pnpm pioneered that and cover you for older release environments.
uv is owned by openai fun fact
Also I would heavily advocate for Debian Testing if you need a rolling release distro. It is less vetted than stable but is still more vetted than many other rolling release options and you can just stay on testing as versions change while getting features pretty fast compared to stable.