Ubuntu is great for me. Easy to set up, didn't have to command line anything to set stuff up (not that I shy away from terminals at all) (you might have to touc

Ubuntu is great for me. Easy to set up, didn't have to command line anything to set stuff up (not that I shy away from terminals at all) (you might have to touch a terminal during install if you have a device that Ubuntu doesn't include a driver for out of the box), it's got some cohesive design, and it works for software development and gaming for me. There's some variants of it that are pretty popular (and use the same software repos but have different desktop environments installed and configured by default), though I half-jokingly wonder if at least some of the popularity of them are from people not wanting to be seen as just settling down on the "noob distro".