Or just use Arch and have almost everything in official repos (and the rest in the AUR). I have had less issues with arch than with debian, because Arch is so simple. If you want to install something, you install it, and the it's installed. One command. Always. I found that debian would break more easily because I had to mess around with unofficial repos and things like flatpak just to get basic programs. More complexity, more that can break, more reliance on 3rd parties. Arch has been rock solid.