Though my daily driver is Solus, I'm also fond of Ubuntu (specifically Mate) as I've grown familiar with it as it's required for my work.
On server, I like btrfs/snapper quite a bit, so I'm also fond of OpenSUSE, but their desktop experience leaves quite a bit to be desired IMO.

    ofperfection On server, I like btrfs/snapper quite a bit, so I'm also fond of OpenSUSE, but their desktop experience leaves quite a bit to be desired IMO.

    openSUSE offers quite a number of desktop experiences. I'm curious which one you didn't like? My favorite was Xfce, and I disliked gnome, but mostly because it was so unfamiliar to me. There was not enough configuration available to make me want to use it.

      a month later

      for my daily use it would have to be another stale Distro as this is my No1 Priority. Also my main use is for Audio work so it either be Ubuntu Studio or Maybe Mint with the Ubuntu Studio Apps installed. But thank heaven this is a hypothetical questions anyway. :-)

      After deciding to move from Mint to another GNU/Linux distro, and trying a plethora of others, my requirements were: an x86_64 curated rolling-release desktop environment, that offered either Budgie or Cinnamon, and wasn't too obscure (i.e., had a viable community to interact with, and ask support questions of). Ultimately, I chose between Solus, Manjaro, openSUSE: Tumbleweed, and ArcoLinuxB. My experience with Manjaro's AUR was a train wreck, and I was judgy about their SoftMaker FreeOffice debacle. OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed didn't feel curated enough too me, so it was a bit shaky as an end-user experience. I really like ArcoLinuxB and still keep tabs on it, but it seemed to me that the amount of desktop environments they're offering has them spread a bit thin, and the Solus community appealed to me more. As an aside, why the Solus community has a reputation for being unfriendly continues to baffle. Were I to adopt an x86_64 curated rolling-release desktop environment that wasn't GNU/Linux, it would absolutely be Project Trident. Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. 😅

      Manjaro, Arch or Mint, all 3 of which I run on other machines. I hoped Solus would be right distro for use on my gaming and surfing machine, but alas, after a year on Solus, with many gaming issues, I may be reloading this machine with an Arch based build on top of BareMetal.

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      Most likely Ubuntu, as I've never really had any problems with it. I like the idea of Fedora...probably more than I like Fedora...

      I play with Linux distro's mainly in virtual machines, with a view to keeping various old Mac's alive, and with a view to keeping my computing skills up to date. So far,I rather like Solus, but it is causing me a lot of difficulties during the installation, in fixing screen resolution and screen size. The kind of thing one had to deal with when trying out Linux 15 years ago. Next, the big upgrades which have to be done before you can do any real work tend to fail halfway and one needs to try again, I suppose because there are not many servers out there hosting Solus. Finally, I can't easily run R and R Studio, which means I need to install a virtual machine in my virtual machine in order to do some real work after I have finished the play- and learning part. At least it seems that Texlive is available. Oh well. I suppose " 'tis early days yet".

        I have installed and used many Linux Distro's but Solus is the best! I wouldn't want to switch to another distro as my main driver unless Solus project was stopped!

        Arch (Salient OS, or ArcoLinuxD), OpenSuse Tumbleweed is a close 2nd.

        I've hopped between many Debian based distros. Before Solus I was using Neon, for the semi-rolling release model. But it used to break often, and it wasn't as light as budgie. But at home my PC is with Linux Mint installed.

        Probably Manjaro or Ubuntu, both Budgie editions. Or I'd go back to windows 🙁.

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        KaOS

        It's hard to say. I ended up looking for a rolling release at Solus because I don't get bombarded with unchecked updates all the time. So there is not much left except a LTS version like Ubuntu or Q4OS or even AntiX.

        With the distributions that are specially designed for old hardware I see the problem that they get stuck on old kernel numbers. So then Ubuntu or Debian.

        Solus is my only operating system at the moment and I hope it can stay that way.

        Before Solus I used eOS. I know that I strongly dislike Gnome and am not a huge fan of KDE either, so I probably would have gone back to that. I do prefer more up to date packages, but Manjaro/Arch never felt right for me.

        TL;DR I would have issues with every other option, but probably the least with eOS.

        Opensuse Tumbleweed. I like rolling distros, and Opensuse Tumbleweed is a fantastic distro that fits my needs perfectly.
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        Pop OS. Its the only distro I've used where the gaming experience is on par with Solus