Elementary OS, just because it's Debian/Ubuntu based so it's nice and easy to use, but it's also fairly light-weight. I think because it's quite a nice looking distro as well, it just makes work a bit more of a pleasure. I feel sorry for the others still using Windows 7!
I work on my dev server, CentOS 6.5. Last year I choose Ubuntu 10.04 on my old laptop (Intel Dualcore), but now I still can't decide best linux distro for my laptop, last time I try L/X/K/Ubuntu 13.04, but it make my laptop battery drain faster and really hot (AMD quadcore) and some of those distro can't work properly like has buggy in graphics, I already install the driver too.
crunchbang.org, simply because it gets out of the way while I work. I also use an arch/ob setup on my main laptop but that requires a fair amount of upkeep / fiddling and such isn't very suitable as a work horse.
b) They are conservative with new technology. This means that by the time things hit debian theyre well thought through.
c) The community behind debian is principled.
d) The debian package repository is very exhaustive.
e) They offer a small net install iso which is ~180 megabytes. This makes a fantastic foundation for a minimalistic linux install with a tiling manager (without pulling in monstrosities like libre office).
Yep, #! is what I'll be using moving forward. My needs are basic: vim, terminator (default on #!), vagrant, and virtualbox. #! just stays out of the way and needed very little keybinding changes out of the box.
kubuntu. I came from Windows and love the ui. Ubuntu under the hood means noob and advanced support. Also, IMHO Konsole is one of the best terminal emulators around.
Fedora. I've been using Redhat-flavored distros since the 90s, and we deploy on RHEL at work. Running Fedora gives me a RHEL-like environment with access to all the cutting-edge goodies.
I don't particularly have any issues with stability with it, despite its reputation for being bleeding edge.
On my work desktop and home laptop: Ubuntu. I just like Unity and I have got used to it now.
On our servers, we use CentOS though, so consequently, I keep a bunch of CentOS virtual machines for testing too. I think CentOS was chosen for our live servers because of it's stability.
Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME. For a couple of years I ran it with Unity out of the box, but then one day it crashed so badly I could not use the system at all, then I switched to GNOME and never turned back since then. Of course, you have to stop by gnome extensions website and tweak your UI a bit to smooth the rough edges found in default mode.
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b) They are conservative with new technology. This means that by the time things hit debian theyre well thought through.
c) The community behind debian is principled.
d) The debian package repository is very exhaustive.
e) They offer a small net install iso which is ~180 megabytes. This makes a fantastic foundation for a minimalistic linux install with a tiling manager (without pulling in monstrosities like libre office).
I don't particularly have any issues with stability with it, despite its reputation for being bleeding edge.
I also have a centos 5.x box running personally
Personal systems: Gentoo. (easiest to customize and automate for me, time investment required.)
Nginx/Apache: Debian. (stable security updates, minimal install)
MariaDB/Postgres: Debian. (security updates, stable branch, well tested.)
Other unless I am stuck with RPM: Debian (long term stability)
RPM: Fedora (works, but EOL is always soon, so make sure the server does only one thing)
On our servers, we use CentOS though, so consequently, I keep a bunch of CentOS virtual machines for testing too. I think CentOS was chosen for our live servers because of it's stability.
though if you are not a "beginner", i highly recommend ArchOS https://www.archlinux.org - by far the active-est community out there