I hopped to many distros and found Ubuntu to be my home.

1. Mint => Desktop looks dated and ugly
2. POP! OS => Unstable for Ubuntu distro
3. Rest of Ubuntu forks => nothing special about them
4. Arch Linux => Too bleedy edge
5. Debian => stale packages (Really solid distro though but dated version of Gnome)
6. Ubuntu => Really solid distro (It is a great balance between stability and bleeding edge)

Garuda. I tried it because it's supposed to be "gamer" oriented. I thought it meant it would make it easier/smoother for gaming. What they actually meant was it felt like being locked inside a gaming PC with flashing and spinning RGB lights everywhere. No fucking thanks.

Fedora. Fedora is solid, but coming from arch I felt it was lacking so much in the way of the package repos and doing things like secure boot was more effort than it was worth.

I used Linux Mint for about 1.5 years before transitioning to Arch Linux. For me, the transition was to learn more about Linux and to try something new. Thus far, I'm really liking Arch. There have been a few issues that have popped up here and there, like getting Bluetooth devices to connect properly, but the Arch Wiki and forums often have the solution. You just have to spend time reading the articles or the forum responses.

As for other distros, I've tried Zorin, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Pop OS, and KDE Neon before settling on Linux Mint.

Any distro that's based on an existing one but changes or adds very little to it. There are so many dead Ubuntu and Debian reskins

Ubuntu. I initially downloaded it for my sibling's pc but now that I've downloaded and configured all these things on their computer, I don't want to reinstall a new OS and reconfigure and download everything again.

I'm currently using Linux Mint as well. I tried Garuda out and I did really like it, but the rolling release kept breaking NVIDIA.

I used Ubuntu back in the day but it sucks now. Snaps are the devil's work.

Zorin OS, which was the second distro I ever tried, I hated how outdated their repos were since they were using an older Ubuntu LTS repository for packages. It was quite painful to install software that would otherwise have worked out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. I hope this is no longer the case today.

manjaro.

Opensuse. Did absolutely nothing wrong but I just didn't vibe with it. Went to fedora and I vibe hard with it

Void, and I really wanted to like it on account of not relying on systemd, but its package repos are too barren for me.

Like, Void's repos are even more barren than EL's stock repos before you add RPMFusion and EPEL among other third-party repos into it, and its AUR equivalent don't help matters.

And Void's musl port is even more limited than the glibc version because it doesn't support multilib, so you can't have Steam or WINE on Void musl, for example, while you could on the glibc version that supports multilib.