Pick one that works for you* and plays nice with your hardware. Make sure it has a very good package manager. I like Debian with mate myself (never tried arch,

Pick one that works for you* and plays nice with your hardware. Make sure it has a very good package manager. I like Debian with mate myself (never tried arch, but i use their tutorials a lot). Apt-get works, has almost everything I need and there is a large user base. Ubuntu peevs me off trying to be so flashy. But I tap into the know how of their user base often. * works for you means that you don't spend your days trying to figure stupid things out, or you battle buggy GUIs. Whatever it is you do on a computer the district/environment is a tool, not the end goal.