Personally I use Slackware. I like it for its simplicity and conservatism in adopting new technologies. It's the BSD of Linux distros. Not as difficult to use as it seems at first either.
Artix. It's a no systemd Arch derivitive. It has an easy installer so you don't have to do the manual install Arch is famous for. Because it's Arch based, everything updates fast so you always have the newest features. It also has a mamoth software repository, both the base repository, and the AUR (arch users' respository). This means you never have to hack in software you want with manual compilation. Just about any software you can think of always has a single command line to install it.
Arch is also the target distro a layer down from SteamOS, so all Arch-based Linuxes tend to support steam and nvidia very smoothly. It's also handy having some packages like yt-dlp or AI stuff always at their newest version since those are fast moving targets. You also get fewer version conflicts when you aren't trying to run 10 year old software on the same box as software released a year ago. If everything has been released in the last 6 months then all the software is from the same era, you get fewer issues where one package wants version X and another wants version Y. Everything just expects the lastest and that's what you've got, so it works out.
Luke Smith is who turned me onto it. I didn't really care about distro selection then, but gave it a wirl. But it's given me fewer and more resolvable problems than I've had on most other systems. You just have update the system ahead of installing new software to avoid issues.
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I use Debian, because it is fast and stable.
Artix. It's a no systemd Arch derivitive. It has an easy installer so you don't have to do the manual install Arch is famous for. Because it's Arch based, everything updates fast so you always have the newest features. It also has a mamoth software repository, both the base repository, and the AUR (arch users' respository). This means you never have to hack in software you want with manual compilation. Just about any software you can think of always has a single command line to install it.
Arch is also the target distro a layer down from SteamOS, so all Arch-based Linuxes tend to support steam and nvidia very smoothly. It's also handy having some packages like yt-dlp or AI stuff always at their newest version since those are fast moving targets. You also get fewer version conflicts when you aren't trying to run 10 year old software on the same box as software released a year ago. If everything has been released in the last 6 months then all the software is from the same era, you get fewer issues where one package wants version X and another wants version Y. Everything just expects the lastest and that's what you've got, so it works out.
Luke Smith is who turned me onto it. I didn't really care about distro selection then, but gave it a wirl. But it's given me fewer and more resolvable problems than I've had on most other systems. You just have update the system ahead of installing new software to avoid issues.