Gentoo, it just works

Fedora. Any kind.

I use Bunsenlabs and like it a lot

Fedora Atomic, especially Bluefin, Bazzite and Aurora.

Nearly unbreakable, very reliable and stable in everyday use, needs no maintenance (updates itself, etc.) and more!

Debian Stable. Predictable, low-maintenance, and well-supported. From time to time, I think about switching over to Alpine or even BSD, but the software selection and abundance of Q&A posts for Debian and its derivatives keeps me coming back. Having been a holdout on older Windows versions in the past, I’m quite used to waiting for new features and still amazed at how much easier life is with a proper package manager.

MX Linux is the best, obviously. Otherwise it wouldn’t be #1 on DistroWatch, right? /j

GNU Guix

If there were a universal answer to this, there wouldn’t be any others.

I myself currently use Debian (testing), have for some years now, but I have used other distros in the past too.

I use fedora-based atomic distros for the reliability and security. Nothing else really runs SELinux out of the box and I care about security so that’s a necessary baseline. I roll my own distro though using BlueBuild, and base it off the SecureBlue image of Silverblue. Just using SecureBlue gets you nearly to what I use though

The best for my user cases atm

For work bluefin For general stations mint For gaming cachyos or bazzite

Arch (cachyos) on my desktop, Debian on my server.

Doesn’t really get any better than those two in my opinion

I got arch cus its light af basically, id just install what i want/need myself

Really depends on what you do and value. I use lots of kde software, so kde distros are my go to. then one big diffrence between distros is how they get updated. do you want the latest updates asap on the costs of stability, or do you want an effing never crashing distro but lag behind in updates a few months/years, or a middleground.

These are the two points i considered when i choose.

Mx

Screw distros, just use Arch