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You know what? Ubuntu. There I said it.
I’ve been using it since 2007 - 7.04 was my first foray into Linux ever. At present day it’s been the most “it just works” distro for me. I installed it and… that’s it. Everything just worked.
I don’t care about the “ads” in the terminal. I don’t care that it’s “bloated” (even the most bloated distro is less bloated than Windows).
If a company is porting their software to Linux, chances are they’re focusing on Ubuntu. Not Debian. Not Mint. Ubuntu.
If something isn’t working, chances are there’s a community post about it with a working solution.
It’s cool that distro hopping is a hobby for a lot of people. It isn’t for me. I want no bullshit, just set it up and let it work so I can focus on doing stuff within the OS, not setting up and fine tuning the OS itself day in and day out. And for me that’s Ubuntu.
I don't use Ubuntu on my desktop but in my experience it performs on par with other distributions and it is not a RAM hog either.
I thing "bloat" is a big mythical monster people like to throw around because it's difficult to argue against and scares everybody.
I think snaps were slow to load to begin with but I also read that it was much improved recently, one can also install Flatpak.
So I think Ubuntu is a great distro, performant and stable.
I like to think of Ubuntu as the distro that just works. Easy install, tons of guides, tons of apps in deb form, minimal use of console.
Started with Mandrake a long time ago and when it went away turned to Ubuntu and have stuck with it ever since. Surprised no one mentioned LTS (long time support) which I think is 5 years. This means for servers you don't have to worry about frequent upgrades (think fedora) and for desktops my setup stays stable for a good while.
I try other disros in VMs just to try sexier stuff but for production stick to Ubuntu.