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You don't have to switch, you can dualboot if you have some disk space to spare.
Unfortunately the only rolling-release distro I've ever used for more than 10 minutes is Arch Linux, which is not "easy to use"; it's not hard, but you have to tinker with it every now and then (especially in the beginning, since you have to set everything up) - if you run
pacmanupdates without looking at the archlinux.org frontpage beforehand you might find yourself with a malfunctioning bootloader or something on that nature.AL updates are known for breaking things a few times, but in my opinion it offers a good compromise between DIY and ... y'know, Ubuntu.
Block the bootloader from updating, use LTS kernel for stability. Checking Arch's page didn't work for me, btw. I ended up switching to Fedora because I was hit by every breakage (4 in a row), LTS kernel didn't work with my ethernet, and ethernet broke after an update. -Some people have great luck and some don't.
I'm personally not too scared of random things breaking, I've always managed to fix them. At some point I will consider replacing GRUB with something else.
Anyway Arch's stability being a matter of luck checks out - I haven't been able to install the damn thing on my ancient laptop for some BIOS related reason.