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One distro for the next five years?
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For a headless server: Ubuntu. Solid, reliable and stable for many years.
For gaming: Pop OS looks promising now that cosmic has been released, however I’d probably stick with Fedora as it’s leading edge and has served me well so far.
debian is better for a headless server in my experience, it has less issues than ubuntu server on bare metal