Fedora
- It's the most bleeding edge and the most stable at the same time
- It's not bloated, but not bare either, it's minimal but functional
- It has the highest quality packaging out there
- The community consists of people from RedHat, Intel, IBM, AMD, the Linux Foundation, etc...
- It's the distro with the best SELinux implementation out of the box
- It's upstream to the most popular enterprise grade linux distro
- It uses Presto/DeltaRPM, which reduces the download volume for updates with 75-95 % in most cases, so it updates and installs software enormously fast, for more efficiency
- It's an RPM-based distro, 'nuff said
- It has yum, which is by far the best package manager with the most functionality and ease-of-use, way more evolved than anything else, and guess what, it will soon be depreciated because they've come up with something even better and more modern
- It has a huge collection of software in the repos, and it can also install from source based on a profile database, just like gentoo
- The release version is not rolling, which has the advantage of having a fresh and snappy system every six months, but it has none of the downsides of non-rolling release distros, because it has Fedup, and automated upgrade tool that works fast and reliably
- Fedora Rawhide is quasi-rolling, and is so bleeding edge that it makes your eyes hurt with joy, and yet it's remarkably stable, and probably experiences less breakage than Arch stable
- It's blazing fast because of the quality and optimization
- Fedora has money to do stuff with because it's backed by the top of the open source industry
- the community is great and friendly
- it's a familiar distro for people like me that use RHEL on servers and workstations
- it's the only distro that comes with the most modern features out of the box, like a full suite of 3D printing tools, scientific tools, electronics engineering tools, robotics tools, creative tools, etc... and it's great for games because it has all the graphics performance updates first
- it's the first distro that will be full HSA optimized
- it's a very safe distro in that, by default, it configures a separate root and non-sudo users accounts
- etc...
But I also run other distros, although mostly I stick with the bleeding edge triumvirate distros and direct spins thereof.