[OT] Good or best Linux distro?

[Dicebot]

On Monday, 20 January 2014 at 12:30:27 UTC, Chris wrote:
> At work we use Ubuntu, however, I'm not at all happy with it 
> and don't want to use it on my private computer. Which is the 
> best alternative (I've been looking at OpenSUSE; Mint is based 
> on Ubuntu/Debian but only shares the repository with Ubuntu 
> (right?); Fedora has bad reviews at the moment and might be a 
> pain to set up (drivers etc.)). I'm also considering FreeBSD, a 
> completely different beast.

It is always a good idea to list specific requirements first :P 
For example:

  - how comfortable you are with console tinkering?
  - what is your preferred Deskop Environment / Windows Manager?
  - do you need most recent versions for some software?
  - is having good out of the box support for D important? ;)

etc.