Debian. Several reasons:

• It's trustworthy.
• It's not going anywhere. Debian existed when I was a kid and it'll probably still exist when I draw my last breath.
• I know how to use it, since, once again, I've been using it since I was a kid.
• It has all the desktop environments.
• It fully supports systemd. I do not miss the unreliability, slowness, and complexity of what came before that. (Normally I wouldn't mention this, but your former distro of choice exists solely for the purpose of not having systemd, so it's relevant this time.)

I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:

I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS...

Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don't stone.

Linux Mint. Nothing beats your computer just working when you have shit to get done.

I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.

Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they're actually just German;)

OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed on workstations (KDE) and Leap on my server.

Fedora on the desktop. I got my start on Red Hat Linux so I've stuck with it since.

For servers I use Debian. Lightweight, widely used, and gets the job done.

I use opensuse with kde and I love it. Have been using it for 2 years now.

For server use at home I use Ubuntu Server and Alma Linux (mostly)

At work it is all RedHat.

NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)

Been using NixOS for a couple months. It’s gotten easier to configure and change because of it, and new computers are super easy to setup because I can just change/apply the config and system wide changes will apply with one command!

openSUSE Tumbleweed, it just works for me.

NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.

Slackware

arch

Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.

Linux Mint with Mate DE.

Linux Mint, it just works

NixOS. Declarative reproducible immutable systems are the future.

Fedora, for the “It Just Works”™ experience of an enterprise-supported distro.

I'm currently running Mint on my Computer and Ubuntu on servers.

I use Linux Mint XFCE on my laptop and desktop. And the standard Steam OS on my Steam Deck.

Linux Mint for desktops/laptops (Cinnamon if the hardware can handle it, MATE if it's a bit long in the tooth), and Debian for servers.

I've used several distros (yes, even Arch btw) through the years but I just keep finding myself coming back to the Debian-based ones. I guess I just feel most at-home with the way it has things set up, or something.

Mint with Cinnamon is my daily driver on my desktop and laptop for almost 3 years now. I ran a company for a while using Linux and managed to find everything I needed for software to run administration. It was great. I still have a windows tablet for troubleshooting and equipment specific requests, but I always feel weird logging into it.

I've used Mint since I started using Linux, and never had any major issues. I've therefore just stuck with it. I don't always have the time to tinker with my machine if something should break, and Mint usually just works when I need it, while still providing flexibility when I want it (and Timeshift to fix it when I break stuff)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop, Debian on my server and SteamOS on the Steam Deck.

I'm a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.

I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I've tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.

SUSE

Ubuntu or Kubuntu. Long are gone the days where I used to tinker with different Linux flavors.

Fortunately, I can afford powerful enough systems so I do not have to be worried about optimizing every single aspect of the OS.

I want things just to work out of the box. I am aware that this applies to more distros than Ubuntu, but I just do not have the time and energy anymore.

Just Ubuntu. I have tried plenty of others but Ubuntu just seems to tick most boxes for me.

EDIT: I am looking forward to the new Pop! when it comes out, I will surely give it a try, No idea if I will switch then though.

I'm currently using a mix of Arch and Fedora, but I've been starting to look in to NixOS.

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Arch. :) I need to learn NixOs or something that is immutable / reproducible at some point.

Right now i am using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. But i am experimenting with NixOS as well. Bdw first comment on lemmy!

Arch.

I've done a reasonable amount of distrohopping, but I always come crawling back because I've never found anything that can compete with the AUR.

Fedora, I'm not a tech person by Linux user standards and I just need an OS that works

Debian, for ultimate stability, Fedora for every day, and Arch for my project box.

Now I am using fedora, before that I used debian stable.

I've felt in love woth Debian the moment I used it for the first time

I used to use Arch but recently switched to Fedora. I need stability now.