Ubuntu
New Ubuntu coming out soon. I've more or less settled on it as my daily driver, or variations thereof. For example I have Kubuntu on one machine, and Ubuntu Studio on another. Servers I tend to favor Debian. I've accumulated a few computers, and tend to have them in different areas, depending on what I do. Eg, my main desktop runs Ubuntu, and I have an older laptop I leave in my kitchen, and a more powerful laptop I use wherever.
Ubuntu works for the most part. I'm not the hugest fan of snaps, but it works. I've used Redhat-based distros in the past, but using Debian for servers makes it easier to just use Debian-based distros on the desktop as well, not that it's a huge deal. I've used Mint before, and it's nice. Maybe a little better for someone coming from Windows.
I used to distro-hop, especially back when I was starting with Linux. It was kind of fun, but after a while it became apparent that it's mostly the same group of software. Some things are different, and of course you can go nuts with customizing a slightly off-the-beaten-path window manager. But for the most part, the differences are minimal, and I just kept using Ubuntu.
A pet peeve of mine is responsiveness. Things like applications starting up quick and responding to user actions, not just sheer performance. There are also other little usability things I think common desktop environments could improve on. You can go a long ways without touching the command line on Linux (although it's useful and still IMHO a big part of using a Linux environment), but it would be helpful to have more options enumerated in the GUI. Along with ironing out some inconsistencies in GUIs... Using Digikam on normal Ubuntu (with Gnome) changes the cursor, for instance.
Sometimes you see changes like that in a different distro, other times not. So I don't obsess too much. Now, distros like NixOS are different, and look interesting. Same with something like GoboLinux. But unless I feel like experimenting with one of those, I stick to what seems to work.
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