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Gentoo because while it was fun to try I sure as hell won't be waiting around for my stuff to compile.
OpenSuse. I found the installer to be a pain in the ass and weird, and the package manager was slow as molasses.
And I'll use Debian as a server, but any distro that requires me to add PPAs as a daily driver can just go away. Fedora has a huge software library, and Arch has the AUR, which has it's own security issues but at least I can read the PKGBUILDs before I install. PPAs are just a security nightmare to my way of thinking, I can't go around keeping track of each one and the current status of whoever owns that domain these days.
Fedora. Fedora is solid, but coming from arch I felt it was lacking so much in the way of the package repos and doing things like secure boot was more effort than it was worth.
MicroOS. I didn't switch from losedows to still have my PC restart on me while I was working. Also, it kinda broke and was annoying to configure, and had way too little documentation.
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Zorin OS, which was the second distro I ever tried, I hated how outdated their repos were since they were using an older Ubuntu LTS repository for packages. It was quite painful to install software that would otherwise have worked out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. I hope this is no longer the case today.