See the search bar at the bottom of the page? Search for "ask hn linux distro" and you'll see that, unsurprisingly, your question has been asked before. Out of

See the search bar at the bottom of the page? Search for "ask hn linux distro" and you'll see that, unsurprisingly, your question has been asked before. Out of courtesy, my favourite distro is slackware; I'll let you figure out why that might be.