Yo Linux users... What distro is your daily driver right now? Why?

I haven't checked out the scene for a while because I've been A)pretty happy with Manjaro and B) doing a lot of design i.e. not using linux.
What are you running right now? Why? Tell me what's good.

I use kubuntu on my laptop and it's smooth. It's also very pretty in design (that's why I chose it) and it reminds of a minimalistic desktop environment.

My favorite system is openSuse. It's rpm based, have good multimedia support and provide very usable tool "Yast2" which allow to customize system in graphical and terminal (remote) mode.

Gentoo. Actually respects my freedoms.
Arch is a meme. Everyone says that it's impossible to install or super hard to use or whatever. Nah, it's probably among the easier ones while maintaining some sense of being pseudo-lightweight. It bundles dependencies with packages to keep the package count low, and still only installs by binaries

Gentoo is still about as easy to install as Arch, at least in the sense of a barebones system. It's the usability that has a learning curve. What? You install drivers by punching them into an installer or pacman? Guess what, I need to recompile my kernel with each driver install. I can also install them as kernel modules, though, depending on what the hardware is and how it interacts with the system. Might sound harder, but it's relatively easy once you do it once or twice, especially with Kconfig.

Although it seems like extra work, I can get rid of anything my computer doesn't have, and focus on what it does have, and thus get a smaller overall install size and less services running and wasting my memory. In headless/text mode, I use around 70-90MB or RAM. Using startx (and dwm+xcompmgr) gets me to around 170MB. Open up firefox, still under half a GB. Tell me if Arch can do that.

Not to mention that the package manager installs packages from source. It can do version control as well as backing up config files and supporting compiler/USE flags to make the most of what I'm installing (again, only install what you need.) If I need something later, just recompile with new options. I don't need to worry about some infected binary somewhere in the repository because I can only install by compilation.

But whatever, minimalism is my autism. Gotta make the most of the computer's specs.

I'm using Zorin 15, it's really clean and looks very nice. It has a multitude of different layouts which mimick the UI from Mac, Windows and other Linux distros. They've also just released an app so you can integrate your computer with an Android phone

Gotta go with Manjaro:

Arch lover, the AUR repository is freaking awesome. Pacman is fast, efficient and it just has everything along with AUR. No more PPAs!
KDE as a desktop environment. Customizability at its finest. Gotta try out KDE Connect if you haven't.

I guess there could be more things, it just makes my work flow better. KDE is the main component, I've used KDE with Ubuntu (Kubuntu) but it gets me stuck from time to time on some repositories/PPAs, or custom builds, that the AUR just gives you. For example, old teamviewer builds, custom GitHub repos for projects like OSU are already there, you just have to click compile and it downloads and does all the work for you.

I guess everyone has its preferences, I encourage anyone to try Arch, and KDE if you want customizability. You have more flavours, of course.