anything but Ubuntu tbh.

This is crazy. You shouldn’t use Ubuntu for anything desktop related. There’s nothing vanilla about vanilla Ubuntu.

(Custom Gnome extensions, patches on top of Gnome, custom sandbox packages that don’t always work, custom apt that refuses to install the real packages in place of snaps, paywalled security patches, should I keep going?)

Um, acktually some of us went from vanilla Debian to Nobara to vanilla Debian.

Kubuntu for modern systems, Xubuntu for older systems, Lubuntu for older, low-end systems with limited RAM, Ubuntu server for headless servers.

Stay mad, Ubuntu haters.

I use templeOS btw

I use fedora because I dont feel like waiting 6 years for new features ;P

Debian since 1998. No reason to change.

Ubuntu sucks

You choose the worst option

Fedora on the right tbh. Even when you chill and get wisdom Canonical and Snap are just a bit too far.

Ewbuntu

Mint, because Ubuntu Cinnamon sucks

Legitimate question as I'm gonna move from Windows 10 within the next couple months. Is there something wrong with Bazzite or Nobara? I had narrowed my decision down to those two since they seem to be an easy transition, they do the things I need, and they're popular enough that I can probably find fixes to any issues I experience. I pushed off my plan to build a desktop, but I still have an aging laptop that is losing security support in a couple of months.

Also, my wife needs Excel specifically for school. Can Excel work on these distros or are there just good alternatives? She might need to keep a Windows 10 partition just for Excel stuff if she can't run it in Bazzite or whatever she picks.

Edit:
Thanks everybody for responses! School is not flexible about using Excel specifically, and she has to share her screen during exams to show that she's just using regular Excel. It's not a hill we're willing to die on lol.
We aren't super interested in doing anything beyond gaming and basic browsing type stuff with our computers, so I'm not sure that Bazzite being immutable really means anything to us. There were some good tips like a /home partition to easily swap distros when needed without losing everything, plus some people pointed out that some of these distros come and go over time so it would be harder to find fixes and continue getting updates if we get too entrenched in something that won't be around much longer.
Overall, I don't think we'll be too picky. We just want a pretty simple process to get something that's like an unbloated Windows, and we don't want to rip our hair out looking for a new distro and starting over every six months. Most people are not power users. I can do pretty much all of my computer stuff on my phone and all of my gaming on my PlayStation, so I really won't notice the difference between most of these recommendations probably.

Mint users make it sound like the distro will literally suck your dick. It's a cult at this point. Forums are filled with issues (which is normal obviously) but nope, "it just works". When it doesn't then that's too bad because as easy as it is to find a vocal Mint user it's much harder to find one who knows anything about Linux.

They should have named Fedora something like "red hat personal" or anything else that doesn't sound like only smelly neckbeards use it and maybe that would be more popular but here we are.

I mean, LMDE is working out pretty nuke proof for my (humble) gaming rig.

Any rolling release will do, doesnt actually matter the flavor.

Steam has been investing into Arch (btw) which is nice but really all you want is quick updates. Graphics drivers on other distros may not be updated quickly enough for you to enjoy the newest releases.

Mint because the name is fun

Ubuntu. The only distro I was able to kernel panic. Multiple times. It just doesn’t like power users.

Using pop OS for 5 years. Never tried any other, never seen the need to. I picked at mostly random and don't really understand the differences.

Never Ubuntu. Kubuntu is as close as I am willing to get, and even then I'd rather go for Mint or Debian.

Use whatever the fuck you want, you fucking weirdo cultists.

Ubuntu is just Debian with extra steps.... and snaps

But then I'd have to deal with snap.

Same but with plain Fedora on each side.