My favorite Linux distributions of late have been Arch based distributions with my favorite being Endeavor OS as it’s easy to install and use verses doing the manual Arch install process which is quite time consuming. A couple other choices are ArcoLinux and Manjaro, with ArcoLinux having several ways to install Arch depending on your experience level with Linux and what packages you want, and Manjaro is similar to Endeavor OS but they have different tiers of Stable, Testing and Unstable, with Stable being a bit behind Arch and more Stable with Unstable being the latest Arch packages. Though this tier system can lead to additional package incompatibilities beyond the occasional Arch breakage. Consequently, Arch is a bleeding edge distribution that gets constant software and kernel updates, so bugs can sneak in and mess up your system like the bug below which broke the graphics display on two old Chromebooks we use no longer supported by Google (Mr. Chromebox has a wonderful site on which Chromebooks and Chromeboxes can have their core bootloaders changed to directly install Linux).
However, instead of fixing them I took the opportunity to reinstall Endeavor OS and switch them from XFCE to the KDE desktop environment which runs just as smoothly on this old hardware as XFCE did. And with Endeavor OS reinstalling was a breeze. Employ Synthing on your system and you can sync files with other systems or a Raspberry Pi file server so if you fire up a new OS you’re back up and running with all your files which is a great setup for testing new Linux operating systems in virtualization quickly with access to all your files. And a breakage with an Arch update isn’t all that bad and worth the price of running the latest software (you can always stay a couple days back on updates and follow the forums to avoid the occasional breakage as well). And at present the only Linux OS I’m running not based on Arch is the Debian Unstable development branch which isn’t quite as up to date with Arch, but pretty close and with similar breakage possibilities. But then many of the more stable distributions are really far behind the latest software and kernels.