Oh boy now you've opened the can of worms that will bring out the people complaining about CentOS... But honestly, it depends on what you're using Ubuntu for.

Oh boy now you've opened the can of worms that will bring out the people complaining about CentOS... But honestly, it depends on what you're using Ubuntu for. As a server or a VM for some work-adjacent purpose like this, Fedora's release cycle is too fast. I prefer Debian simply because there's no bullshit to it, it will always be there, its the base for most Docker images. I also consider most VMs ephemeral which gets around my annoyance with apt not having anything nearly as cool as dnf history. I'm actually fine with modern CentOS but "I'll stick it on Debian" has been a really good default for me for the past 20 years. As a desktop/workstation, Fedora's pretty good! Good package manager, good release cadence, strong commitment to upstreaming everything. GNOME has started to annoy me but Fedora's KDE release is great.