They said—Debian

doh - im an idiot. I read that as "from debian", assuming they were referring to the wider debian suite. TY.

I used to use ubuntu for most everything. This year I'm trying arch a la cachyos. It's actually super nice to not have to wait for hardware support and security patches. Has anything broken? Nope. In fact, things that I would just have to deal with as "teehee isn't linux quirky?" shit is mostly gone. Turns out that it really is as simple as canonical and gnome being the problem.

I use Fedora if that's helpful. Well, I've been using Bluefin for the last few months and it's certainly different.

Bluefin uses sudors and uutils too!

Debian for servers and could also be for desktop, though for desktop Mint seemed okay (still Ubuntu based, just without the focus on snaps and the Cinnamon desktop is nice).

Whereas on the RPM side Fedora is pretty good for desktop and something like RockyLinux for your servers (essentially carries on the spirit of the old CentOS).

Then again, I never really needed any of the more fancy modern distros, most of the time I just need good LTS and to run Docker, many might prefer Podman.

[delayed]

Debian, SuSE, Fedora, Rocky depends what you are using for. One of the first 3 if you're running it on a desktop.