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My philosophy has been to let the distro package manager handle system packages (kernel, OpenSSL, etc) but then use flatpak [1] to install user progs like Chromium and VSCode so I get bleeding edge releases and sandboxing.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.chromium.Chromium




And by bleeding edge you mean stable.




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