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

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.